Alekseyevskoye

The village of Alekseyevskoye had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Therefore, Jews moved into this area only after the Bolshevik seizure of power and the ensuing Russian Civil War. They were drawn to the Ordzhonikidze District because of the economic and industrial development there. Following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze District came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews. German troops occupied Alekseyevskoye on August 16, 1942. On August 23, the Germans and the local policemen arrested twenty-six Jews, including women, children, and elderly people. These Jews were shot dead at the refuse field of an old mill on the morning of August 24. The Red Army liberated the village on January 13, 1943.