Vladimir E. Shevalev, the disciple Academician V.P. Filatov loved

Abstract

Vladimir Evgenievich Shevalev (Fig. 1) was the third generation of his family to be born in Odessa. His father, Evgenii Aleksandrovich Shevalev (Fig. 2), Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Odessa Medical Institute, was acting medical superintendent of the city mental hospital and performed an act of civil courage during the Nazi occupation of the city during the Second World War. Evgenii Shevalev managed to forge the medical records of Jewish patients with the help of his younger son Andrei and hospital personnel, and, by the year of 1942, there was no Jew among officially registered patients of the hospital, and the latter continued admitting “new” patients. The exact number of persons saved by the Shevalevs and hospital personnel is still unknown. Many years later Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes' Remembrance Authority awarded Evgenii Shevalev and his younger son Andrei the title of Righteous among the Nations.