Emilia Teumin
Emilia Isaakowna Teumin ( Russian Эмилия Исааковна Теумин / Emilija Isaakowna Teumin ; born 1905 in Bern ; executed on August 12, 1952 in Moscow ) was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFK) .
Life
Emilia Teumin's parents met in Switzerland. Emilia's mother went there for a spa stay in order to cure a tuberculosis that she contracted while in custody for attending a May demonstration. Her father had fled here as a member of the central committee of the federal government from imminent arrest.
After Emilia's birth, they returned to Russia . In 1920 her father joined the Russian Communist Party ; the family cared little about Jewish affairs.
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union , Emilia Teumin became an employee of the international department of the Sowinform office because of her language skills . Its deputy chairman Solomon Losowski was her superior. He was also secretary of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. For this she worked as a typist and translator, without having any influence on its conceptual tasks or bearing political responsibility for the texts she created.
Her tasks also included compiling information material for foreign visitors. This was exclusively material that was known abroad and had already been censored. Among them were z. B. Articles from party newspapers and reports of Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.
Exactly this work was taken at the end of the 1940s as an opportunity to arrest her and thus accuse her and especially the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of espionage.
After three years of imprisonment and torture, she was shot together with many prominent members of the JAFC in Moscow on August 12, 1952, on the night of the murdered poets . Along with Tschajka Vatenberg-Ostrowskaja , she is the most arbitrary victim of the murder of JAFK members.
literature
- Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews. The tragic story of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Soviet Jews. Structure, Berlin 1998, 2nd edition 2002, page 412, ISBN 3-7466-8049-2 .
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| SURNAME | Teumin, Emilia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teumin, Emilia Isaakovna (full name); Теумин, Эмилия Исааковна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1952 |
| Place of death | Moscow |