Staro Shcherbinovskaya

As the village of Staro-Shcherbinovskaya had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution, no Jews lived there before 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 Staro-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 twenty Jews in a pit next to the German police station. The massacre appears to have taken place on September 8, 1942.

The Red Army liberated Staro-Shcherbinovskaya in February 1943.