Pervomayskoye

Before the war Pervomayskoye was a Jewish kolkhoz. Many of its members succeeded in leaving before the arrival of the German forces. After the occupation of the village in November 1941, the Jews had their livestock confiscated by the occupying authorities, were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothes, and had their houses marked with the word "Jude." They were also taken for forced labor, humiliated, and beaten. The local non-Jewish inhabitants were prohibited from entering Jewish homes and providing the Jews with food.

On January 21, 1942 about 60 Jews from Pervomayskoye were murdered in a gas van and their bodies were thrown into a well near the village of Krasnoye.

Pervomayskoye was liberated by the Red Army in mid-April 1944.