Kary

Jews began to settle in Kary in the 1920s in the framework of the Jewish agricultural settlement of Crimea supported by Komzet (the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land). The village was also known as Kary-Komzet, while in the late 1920s and early 1930s it was referred to as Sotsgevet (Yiddish for "socialist competition")kolkhoz. There was a seven-year Yiddish school in Kary. Later people of other nationalities, such as Russians, Ukrainians, Greeks, and Tartars, also came to live in Kary. Nevertheless, at the time of the outbreak of war the majority of the village's inhabitants were still Jews. Most of the Jews succeeded in fleeing Kary before the arrival of German troops in autumn 1941. In November and December 1941 approximately 130-150 Jews who had remained in Kary, along with several non-Jews, were murdered on the outskirts of the village. Kary was liberated by the Red Army in April 1944. After the war the name of the village was changed to Yelizavetovo.