Elena Rzhevskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elena Rzhevskaya

Russian writer, finder of Adolf Hitler's remains

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1919

Place of Birth: Gomel, Belarus

Date of Death: 25-Apr-2017

Profession: writer, translator, interpreter

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Elena Moiseevna Rzhevskaya (Russian: ???´?? ?????´???? ???´?????, born Elena Kagan; 27 October 1919 – 25 April 2017) was a writer and former Soviet war interpreter.
In April and May, 1945, she participated in the Battle of Berlin.
According to her memoirs, called in English Memories of a War-time Interpreter (??????? ???????? ???????????), she was a member of the Soviet unit searching for Adolf Hitler in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery.
The Führer's corpse was, according to her own words, found by soldier Ivan Churakov on 4 May 1945.
Four days later, on 8 May, Colonel Vassily Gorbushin gave her a small box that allegedly contained Hitler's jawbones.
During the identification of the corpse, the Soviet team worked in top secret conditions.
It consisted of only three people, Rzhevskaya being one of them.
She and Gorbushin allegedly managed to find in Berlin, Käthe Heusermann, an assistant of Hugo Blaschke, Hitler's personal dentist.
Heusermann confirmed the identity of the Nazi leader.
The information was, however, suppressed by Joseph Stalin, who later ordered the facts not to be publicized.
She was a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage.