Ignatówka (Lozisht)
Shtetl (completely destroyed)
Lozisht location east of Belzec in World War II
Ignatówka (Lozisht) is located in Ukraine
Ignatówka (Lozisht)
Ignatówka (Lozisht)
Location of destroyed town of Ignatówka (Lozisht) within present-day Ukraine
Coordinates: 50°55′15″N 25°41′50″E / 50.92083°N 25.69722°E / 50.92083; 25.69722
CountryRussian Empire, then in Second Polish Republic
Founded1838, Russian Empire
Destroyed1942, during the Holocaust by bullets
Websiteheavensareempty.com/website/Synopsis.html

Ignatówka, also Lozisht,[1] was a Jewish shtetl (village) located in what is now western Ukraine but which used to be part of the Second Polish Republic before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. Ignatówka was bordering a Jewish shtetl in Zofjówka, located in the gmina Silno, powiat Łuck of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in prewar Poland.[2] The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of Trochenbrod and Lozisht.[1]

Lozisht and Trochenbrod Jewery Holocaust memorial (Holon Cemetery, Israel)

Ignatówka (Lozisht) was founded in 1838, and had grown to approximately 1,200 inhabitants by the beginning of World War II. Of those, only a few survived. Most of the Jews of Ignatówka died in a single killing spree along with the Jews of neighbouring Zofjówka (Trochenbrod) in the hands of local collaborators,[3] consisting mostly of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police shooters who rounded up the prisoners in the presence of only a few German SS men. According to Virtual Shtetl over 5,000 Jews were massacred, including 3,500 from Zofiówka and 1,200 from Ignatówka, including some inhabitants of other nearby settlements.[4][5] The village was destroyed and now only fields and a forest can be seen there.

References

  1. ^ a b Beit Tal (2007), Trochenbrod & Lozisht community website. Internet Archive. See also: The Heavens Are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod by Avrom Bendavid-Val. A Lost History, official website. Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Powiat Łucki". Wołyński Dziennik Wojewódzki (1). Pos. 345 at page 63. 1936. See also: Strony o Wołyniu (2008). "Zofjówka". Town description in the Polish language, with location map, statistical data, and a short list of prominent individuals. Wolyn.ovh.org. Archived from the original on 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  3. ^ Eleazar Barco (Bork); Samuel Sokolow (April 22, 1999) [original material written before World War II]. "Trochinbrod - Zofiowka". Translated by Karen Engel. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.[unreliable source?]
  4. ^ Beit Tal (2010). "Zofiówka". POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Truchenbrod – Lozisht: The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora". Beit Tal. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-08-10 – via Internet Archive.
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