Kurgannaya

Before the Russian Revolution, the Kurgannaya County lay outside the Pale of Settlement, where Jews were allowed to live. Kurgannaya itself was a former Cossack town, with no Jewish inhabitants. However, following the Nazi invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Kurgannaya County came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, many of whom were Jews. German forces occupied the town on August 6, 1942. The Jews who had found refuge in the town were then arrested and taken to the former civil registration office. They were held there until the day of the murder operation, when they were taken by truck to an anti-tank trench at the Miolotov collective farm near the village of Mikhailovka. There, they were shot to death by German troops. The Red Army liberated Kurgannaya on January 28, 1943.