Novo Troitskoye

The Novo-Troitskoye County was part of the Ordzhonikidze District, which had lain outside the Jewish Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution; hence, 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 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 Novo-Troitskoye on August 3, 1942. The German mobile killing squads and the local policemen killed the Jewish evacuees in the village in two separate murder operations. On September 27, 1942, 240 Jews were massacred at the Novy Trud collective farm. On October 12 that year, another 319 Jewish evacuees were taken to the German headquarters in the villages of Novo-Aleksandrovskaya and Izobilnoye, and killed there.

The Red Army liberated Novo-Troitskoye on January 22, 1943.