Berezovka

The Talalayevka County lay in the eastern part of the Pale of Settlement. For this reason, fewer Jews lived in the village of Berezovka than in other settlements of the Sumy District. In the aftermath of the German invasion of the USSR, the Talalayevka County came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews from the western regions of Soviet Ukraine and Belarus. The Wehrmacht occupied Berezovka in November 1941. The German administration ordered the Jews of the village to wear yellow stars. On January 30, 1942, local Ukrainian policemen arrested four Jewish individuals, took them to a cattle burial ground outside the village, and shot them there. The Red Army liberated Berezovka on October 3, 1943.