Aleksandriyskaya

Alexandriysko-Obileninskiy County was as a part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, which was outside the tsarist Pale of Settlement and no Jews lived in Alexandriyskaya before the Soviet-German War. However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze Kray District became a destination of civilian evacuation or flight, including for many Jews. The German forces and their death squads occupied Alexandriyskaya on August 10, 1942. The Jews were ordered to gather at the Gestapo headquarters on the morning of September 12, 1942, upon which they were arrested and shot. The 54 victim were murdered on the banks of the Kuta River. The Red Army liberated the village in January 1943.