Rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in Beslenei

The rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in Beslenei occurred in August 1942, in the aul of Beslenei, Cherkess Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR, when local Circassian villagers adopted evacuated children from a Leningrad orphanage, most of whom were Jewish, and managed to forge documents in order to prove to the Nazis that the children were of local descent. The orphanage, on the Okhta River, was evacuated in April 1942 to Armavir, Armenia via the Road of Life on the icy Lake Ladoga.

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Rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in Beslenei

The rescue of Leningrad Jewish children in Beslenei occurred in August 1942, in the aul of Beslenei, Cherkess Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR, when local Circassian villagers adopted evacuated children from a Leningrad orphanage, most of whom were Jewish, and managed to forge documents in order to prove to the Nazis that the children were of local descent. The orphanage, on the Okhta River, was evacuated in April 1942 to Armavir, Armenia via the Road of Life on the icy Lake Ladoga.

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