Yelizavetinskaya

The village of Yelisavetinskaya was outside the Pale of Settlement during the tsarist period and there were still no Jews living there before the Second World War. However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, Maryanskaya County became an area of civilian evacuation or flight, including of many Jews. German forces occupied Yelisavetinskaya on October 27, 1942. According to several sources, only a few Jews found refuge in the village, with two Jewish families ending up living with some non-Jews. On one night these Jewish families were arrested and taken to the village of Maryanskaya. They were collected with other victims in an abandoned church, which had been commandeered by the German army. The victims, including six of the Jewish refugees in Yelisavetinskaya, were shot to death there. The Red Army liberated Yelisavetinskaya around February 13, 1943.