Bogdanovka

The first Mountain Jews settled in Bogdanovka at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the 1920s, within the framework of the general policy of agrarization of Soviet Jews, a kolkhoz of Mountain Jews was established. Additional Jews from the Kuban region and Dagestan arrived in Bogdanovka. In 1939 there the 550 Mountain Jews in the village comprised about 90 percent of the entire population. German military forces occupied Bogdanovka on August 22, 1942. The Germans and the local police force raided Jewish houses and apartments. Valuable property was looted and a curfew, which started a 6 p.m. was imposed on the Jews. They were also forbidden to meet or even speak with their neighbors. On October 25, 1942 Germans, with the help of local auxiliary policemen, short to death 472 Jews of Bogdanovka at an old well located approximately half a kilometer east of the village. The Red Army liberated Bogdanovka on January 4, 1943.