Nezlobnaya

The Georgiyevsk County was part of the Ordzhonikidze Krai, which had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Therefore, in 1939 the village of Nezlobnaya was home to only nine Jews, who made up less than one percent of its total population. 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 Ukraine and Belarus. With the beginning of the German summer offensive on June 28, 1942, the Wehrmacht moved in the direction of the Caucasus, occupying Nezlobnaya in August 1942. The Germans and their collaborators murdered the evacuees, including some Jews, in three separate massacres. The total death toll was as high as 508 civilians, including the Jewish evacuees. The Red Army liberated Nezlobnaya in January 1943.