Dinskaya

Since the village of Dinskaya had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution, no Jews lived there before World War II. However, following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the North Caucasus came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews. Some of these Jews ended up in Dinskaya. German troops occupied Dinskaya in September 1942. That same month, German soldiers and local auxiliary policemen arrested fifty Jews and murdered them in a clay pit at the brick factory of the October collective farm. The Red Army liberated Dinskaya in February 11, 1943.