Soldato Aleksandrovskoye

In 1939 the village of Soldato – Aleksandrovskoye and the entire Vorontsovo – Aleksandrovskoye County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, which before the Russian Revolution was outside of Pale of Settlement 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 an area of civilian evacuation or 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 Soldato – Aleksandrovskoye on August 24, 1942.

Immediately after the Germans entered the village, they ordered the registration of the local Jews.

The registration took place on August 27, 1942, at 7 o’clock in the morning.

Afterward, the Jews had to wear a Star of David on an white armband and had to perform hard force labor -- cleaning streets and the quarters of the Germans and their allies, as well as to do road work. In the days around September 19, 1942 the Germans arrested all the Jews under the pretext of evacuating them.

Approximately 300 Jews were taken to an anti-tank trench (located northwest of the village), and were shot to death there.

The Red Army liberated Soldato – Aleksandrovskoye on January 10, 1943.