Ladozhskaya

Since the town of Ladozhskaya was outside the tsarist Pale of Settlement, even after the Bolshevik Revolution it had a miniscule Jewish community, with only seven Jews living there. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, many Soviet civialians, among them many Jews, fled or were evacuated to the Krasnodar Kray District, including Ladozhskaya County. German forces occupied the town on August 9, 1942. On December 17, 1942, about 3,000 Jews were shot to death on the bank of the Kuban River. The Germans threw their victims, both the dead and those still living, into the river. The Red Army liberated Ladozhskaya on January 31, 1943.