Irina Victorovna Rebrova,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, PhD, Center for Research on Antisemitism TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Creator of the project “Remember us...” (https://nsvictims.ru), e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Memory Sites of 214 Children with Disabilities from the Yeysk Orphanage: an Oral History Interview with an Eyewitness of the 1942 Crime
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-1-15
The article presents a publication of an oral history interview with Vladimir Rudenchenko. It was recorded in May, 2018 in the city of Yeysk and became a part of the research project “Remember us…”. The project aims to study the history of mass killings of people with disabilities as one of the victim groups of the Nazi regime in the occupied Russian regions during World War II, as well as memory of these victims in Soviet and modern Russia. The central topic of the interview deals with an attempt to find out the burial site of 214 children with disabilities from the Yeysk orphanage who were killed by members of Sonderkommando 10a Einsatzgruppe D on October 9–10, 1942. Victor Rudenchenko, as a teenager, turned out to be an unwitting witness of the burial of children’s corpses on October 9, 1942. There is a brief description of the history of mass killings in Yeysk and the post-war culture of remembrance of the Nazi victims before the interview publication. The transcription of the interview is provided with historical comments.
Publishing: 28/02/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 29.11.2021
How to cite: Rebrova I.V. Memory Sites of 214 Children with Disabilities from the Yeysk Orphanage: an Oral History Interview with an Eyewitness of the 1942 Crime // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 1 (21), pp. 154–171. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-1-15.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2022
Keywords: oral history, World War II, nazi occupation, North Caucasus, victim groups, people with disabilities, memory of World War II, 214 children with disabilities, Yeysk