Dovsunskoye

In 1939 the village of Dovsunskoye (Dovsun) was part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, which was outside the tsarist Pale of Settlement, where Jews were allowed to live. Therefore, there were still no Jews in Dovsun and all Budyonnovsky County after 1917. 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 of many Jews. German forces occupied Dovsun village on August 25, 1942. They ordered the arrest of some Jewish refugees on the same day and shot them at a stable without a roof. Later the Germans, with the assistance of local accomplices, shot other Jews in the yard of the executive committee, on Karl Liebknecht Street, during the first days of September 1942. Altogether the Germans killed about 50 people, including 29 Jews. The Red Army liberated Dovsun on January 13, 1943.