Uspenskoye

Since Uspenskoye County was outside the tsarist Pale of Settlement, no Jews lived there before the revolutions of 1917. During the Soviet period also Jews did not reside there. However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, Uspenskoye County became a destination of civilian evacuation or flight, with some of those civilians being Jewish. The Germans occupied the town on August 9, 1942. On August 25, the Germans arrested 46 people, most of them Jewish, and took them to the German prison in the village. Four days later they were murdered in the nearby village of Konokovo. Several days later 85 civilians, most of them Jewish, were also taken to the same place and killed there. The Red Army liberated Uspenskoye on January 28, 1943.