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Sanatorium Area in Teberda (Gas Vans)

On December 22, 1942 the Jewish children who had been patients in the sanatorium and had been evacuated to [a sanatorium] in Teberda were loaded into a gas van that had been driven up to the entrance. The children were ill with tuberculosis of the bone and unable to move; some of them were in full body casts. They were gassed, according to some sources, in a birch grove near the sanatorium. Their bodies were thrown into the Gonachkhir River.

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Lysaya Gora near Teberda

On December 14, 1942 Jewish members of the medical staff of the sanatorium that had been evacuated to Teberda, as well as their family members and probably some non-Jewish medical personnel as well, were taken to a trench located one and a half kilometers from Teberda in the area of Lysaya Gora. There the victims were forced to undress and their possessions and valuables were taken from them. They were forced in groups of about 20 to the edge of the pit where they had to kneel and then were shot in the back of the head. The shooting, that was carried out by Sonderkommando 11 (either 11a or 11b), lasted about three hours. Some non-Jewish medical personnel were apparently shot along with the Jews.

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