Novo Osetinovskaya

The Mozdok County was part of the Ordzhonikidze District, which had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Thus, there were no Jews living in this area prior to the Soviet-German War. However, in the wake of the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze District came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews from Ukraine, Bessarabia (present-day Moldova), and Belarus. With the beginning of the German summer offensive in late June 1942, the Wehrmacht launched its invasion of the North Caucasus. German troops occupied Novoosetinovskaya in late August 1942. Shortly thereafter, at noon on September 11, 1942, German soldiers and local policemen arrested eleven Jews and shot them near the local cemetery. The Red Army liberated Novoosetinovskaya in early January 1942.