Besskorbnaya

The village of Besskorbnaya lay outside the Pale of Settlement. Hence, no Jews lived there prior to World War II. However, in the aftermath of the German invasion of the USSR the Sovetskaya County came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews. Besskorbnaya was occupied by German troops in August 1942. In late September that year, the Germans began to hunt for Jews in the village. They arrested fifteen Jews, eleven of whom were children evacuated from a Jewish orphanage in Odessa. That same day, all fifteen Jews were killed in a gas van. The Red Army liberated Besskorbnaya on January 22, 1943.