The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

[End Page 1794] Pre-1942: Kagal’nitskaia, village and raion center, Rostov oblast’, RSFSR; 1942–1943: Kagalnizkaja, Rear Area, Army Group B (rückwärtiges Heeresgebiet B); post-1991: Kagal’nitskaia, Russian Federation

Kagal’nitskaia is a Cossack village (stanitsa) located 58 kilometers (36 miles) southeast of Rostov on Don. In 1939, there were only seven Jews living in the village.¹

German armed forces occupied the village in late July 1942. Throughout the entire six months of the occupation, a German military commandant’s office was in charge of the village. It established a local administration and an auxiliary police force, made up of local residents.

In August 1942, all the Jews in the village—38 families, primarily Jewish refugees—were assembled in a large barn, which became a temporary ghetto. Those Jews who were fit for work were required to perform forced labor. The Jews remained in this barn ghetto for one month. In September 1942, the German forces liquidated the ghetto by shooting all of the Jews, about 200 people in total.