# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elena-rzhevskaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:00:50.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elena-rzhevskaya"
name: "Elena Rzhevskaya"
slug: "elena-rzhevskaya"
description: "Elena Moiseevna Rzhevskaya 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. Hitler's charred remains were, 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 contained Hitler's dental remains. During the identification of the corpse, the Soviet team worked in top-secret conditions. Rzhevskaya and Gorbushin 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."
tagline: "Soviet war interpreter who safeguarded Hitler's remains (1919–2017)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-10-27"
deathDate: "2017-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.069418386491557
  historical:           7.551626666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Yelena Rjevskaya"
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    title: "الينا رزهيڤسكايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ielena Rjévskaia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelena_R%C5%BEevsk%C3%A1"
    title: "Jelena Rževská"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelena_Moissejewna_Rschewskaja"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%88%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B1_%CE%A1%CE%B6%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1"
    title: "Έλενα Ρζέφσκαγια"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Rzhevskaya"
    title: "Elena Rzhevskaya"
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    title: "Ելենա Ռժևսկայա"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%2C_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Ржевская, Елена Моисеевна"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump