Proletarskiy

The Proletarskiy farmstead had lain outside the Pale of Settlement before the Russian Revolution; hence, no Jews lived there on the eve of World War II. However, in the aftermath of the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Timashevskaya County came to house a number of civilian evacuees, including some Jews. Many local farmsteads now became shelters for refugees from the western regions of the Soviet Union. German troops occupied Proletarskiy on August 9, 1942. The Germans set up an administration in the county, with its headquarters in the village of Timashevskaya. In the first days of October 1942, the German authorities ordered the arrest of all the Jews who had found shelter in the farmstead. A group of about five people were taken to a railway bridge in the southwestern section of Timashevskaya, where they were shot dead by German soldiers. The Red Army liberated Proletarskiy in February 1943.