Sengileyevskoye

In 1939, the village of Sengileevskaya and the Voroshilovsk County were part of the Ordzhonikidze District, which had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Therefore, no Jews lived in this area before World War II. However, following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze District came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including numerous Jews from Soviet Ukraine, Bessarabia (present-day Moldova), and Belarus. The Wehrmacht occupied Sengileevskaya in early August 1942. In the same month, the Germans arrested 14 people, 10 of them Jews, and shot them at the Molochnaya farm. The Red Army liberated Sengileevskaya in the last days of January 1943.