Novo Shcherbinovskaya

Since the village of Novo-Shcherbinovskaya had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution, no Jews lived there until World War II. However, in the aftermath of the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Shcherbinovsky County came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews. German troops occupied Novo-Shcherbinovskaya in August 1942. For about a month, the local Jews were forced to perform hard and dirty work, and they were then ordered to register for an evacuation. Under this pretext, the Germans murdered 202 Jews in a ravine in the northern part of the village. The massacre probably took place on September 8, 1942. The Red Army liberated Novo-Shcherbinovskaya in February 1943.