Vasilyevskiy

The Libknechtskiy County was part of the Ordzhonikidze Krai, the territory of which had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Revolution. Thus, there were no Jews living in the village of Malorossiyskoye in 1939. However, in the wake of the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze Krai came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews from Soviet Ukraine and Belarus. With the beginning of the German summer offensive on June 28, 1942, the Wehrmacht launched its invasion of the North Caucasus, occupying Malorossiyskoye in early August 1942. Between September and October 1942, the Germans murdered 14 Jewish refugees. The Red Army liberated Malorossiyskoye on January 14, 1943.