Bekeshevskaya

In 1939, the village of Bekeshevskaya and the Suvorovsky County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Krai, which had lain outside the Jewish Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Therefore, no Jews lived in this area before the Second World War.

However, following 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 in late June 1942, the Wehrmacht launched its invasion of the North Caucasus, occupying Bekeshevskaya in the first days of August 1942.

German soldiers executed 72 Jews on the outskirts of the village on December 12, 1942.

The Red Army liberated Bekeshevskaya in January 1943.