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Systematic torture and murder of Jews (and people believed to be Jewish) in the camp during the Holocaust, by Nazi Germany.
Location
Nalchik, German-occupied Russian SFSR
Original use
No known original use
Operational
c. November 1942 – 3 January 1943 (around two months)
Inmates
Russian Jews (or people believed to be Jewish) living in the Caucasus Mountains area, at the time
Number of inmates
about c. 3500 to 4400 inmates
Killed
about c. 160 to 200 inmates (fatally shot to death)
Liberated by
3 January 1943, Soviet Red Army
The Nalchik concentration camp or ghetto was a Nazi concentration camp or ghetto which was established around October to November 1942 by Nazi Germany. The camp or ghetto interned and segregated Russian Jews (and people believed to be Jewish) all coming from the Caucausus Mountains area, not just from Nalchik. The camp or ghetto is famous for it's systematic torture and murder of inmates. By late December and/or early January, The German officers ultimately established a plan to murder (or start the process of targeting and murdering) all (or nearly all) of the inmates, on 4 January, but fortunately it was succesfully liberated on 3 January 1943, by a nearby Soviet Red Army military and/or army unit being dispatched to liberate the entire city of Nalchik, the day before the plan was going to be executed. Fortunately, nearly all of the 3700 people survived the camp (or ghetto), except for 200 people who were killed, because it was liberated early by the Soviet Red army. It existed for about two or three months, only but fortunately. The camp (or ghetto) was called "Jewish Colony" by the German officers there. Nalchik was occupied by Nazi Germany from 28 October 1942 to 3 January 1943. However, because almost all of the inmates had survived the camp or ghetto, and their sufferings lasted for a very short while, and almost all of them survived, for decades after the war ended, Holocaust historians and scholars actually founded it really so difficult to consider them as Holocaust survivors.
