Novo Derevyankovskaya

Since the village of Novo Derevyankovskaya had been outside the Pale of Settlement, where the tsars had allowed Jews to live, there were still no Jews living there even before the Soviet-German war. However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, Novo Minskaya County became a refuge for civilian evacuation or flight from the Germans. The newcomers to the County included many Jews. German forces captured Novo Derevyankovskaya in September 1942. At the beginning of October 1942, the Germans ordered the Jews to wear a white armband. Following that, the Germans arrested the Jews of the village during the night between the 23th and the 24th of October and shot them to death at the local machine and tractor station. The Red Army liberated Novo Derevyankovskaya on February 16, 1943.