Suvorovskaya

In 1939 the village of Suvorovskaya and the entire Suvorovskaya County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, which before the Russian Revolution was outside the Pale of Settlement. Consequently, no Jews lived in this area before World War II.

However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze Kray District became a destination of civilian evacuation and flight, including of many Jews from Soviet Ukraine and Belorussia. With the summer offensive of the German military at the end of June 1942, the Germans began invading the North Caucasus.

The Wehrmacht occupied Suvorovskaya on August 9, 1942.

The first murder operation took place on August 26, 1942. The Germans collected 95 Jewish children and murdered them on a collective farm. At the beginning of October 1942 German killing squads murdered 70 Jewish civilians on the outskirts of Suvorovskaya.

The Red Army liberated Suvorovskaya on January 13, 1943.