Vedmezhye

Prior to the Russian Revolution, the Talalayevka County had lain in the eastern part of the Pale of Settlement. Therefore, this village was home to relatively few Jews, compared to other parts of the Sumy District.

Following the German invasion of the USSR, a number of civilian evacuees, including some Jews from the western parts of Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, arrived in the Talalayevka County.

German troops occupied Vedmezhye in mid-September 1941.

On September 27, 1941, German and local policemen killed fourteen Jews in an anti-tank trench next to the road leading to the Kreshchatik farm.

Later, on November 11, 1941, the Ukrainian and German policemen raped and killed three Jewish girls, whose parents had been murdered back in late September.

The Red Army liberated Vedmezhye on September 15, 1943.