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Murder story of Bolotnitsa Jews in the Talalayevka Forest
Murder Site
Talalayevka Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
On November 22, 1941, a German mobile killing squad arrested two Jewish families – about eight individuals – in Bolotnitsa and took them to the village of Talalayevka. There, they were shot by the same killing squad in December that year. While the exact shooting site cannot be identified, they were probably killed on the outskirts of Talalayevka, in the same area where the local Jews, along with evacuees and Soviet POWs, were shot.
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Ivan Babenko, who lived in Bolotnitsa during the war, testifies:
On November 22, 1941, a German punitive squad arrested two families of Jewish nationality in the village of Bolotnitsa of the Talalayevka County.
1. Mendel Aronovich Aronov, born 1872; his wife Anyuta, born 1870; his daughter Maria Mendelevna, born 1909; his daughter Hanna Mendelevna, born 1908; his daughter Sonya Mendelevna, born 1913, and his granddaughter Lena, born 1933.
2. And his son Antsul Mendelevich Aronov, born 1907; his wife Matlya, born 1910, and their son Shura Antselovich, born 1937.
They were taken to the village of Talalayevka for a resettlement, and were later shot dead in the village of Talalayevka by the German punitive squad in December 1941.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-74-483 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19984
Talalayevka Forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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