Bolotnitsa

Since the Talalayevka County lay in the eastern part of the Pale of Settlement, the village of Bolotnitsa was home to relatively few Jews, compared to other settlements of the Sumy District. Following the German invasion of the USSR, a large number of civilian evacuaees, including many Jews from the western regions of Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, came to the Talalayevka County. The Wehrmacht occupied Bolotnitsa in early September 1941. On November 22 that year, eight Jews were arrested in the village by German troops and taken to the town of Talalayevka, where they were executed by a German mobile killing squad in December 1941. The Red Army liberated Bolotnitsa on September 16, 1943.