Novy Karagurt

Novy Karagurt was a Jewish agricultural settlement. In the late 1920s or early 1930s a kolkhoz named "Politotdel" was established there; it was later renamed "Kirov." Before the war the kolkhoz prospered. In the late 1930s several non-Jewish families came to live there. Many Jews succeeded in leaving before the arrival of German troops. At the beginning of March 1942 between 60 and 75 remaining Jews and one Russian man married to a Jewish woman were assembled at the school building. From there they were taken out of the village and shot at a lime pit.