Ignatówka, also Lozisht, was a Jewish

shtetl A shtetl or shtetel (; yi, שטעטל, translit=shtetl (singular); שטעטלעך, romanized: ''shtetlekh'' (plural)) is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before ...

(village) located in what is now western

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but which used to be part of the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...

before the Nazi-

Soviet invasion of Poland The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subse ...

in 1939. Ignatówka was bordering a Jewish shtetl in Zofjówka, located in the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

Silno,

powiat A ''powiat'' (pronounced ; Polish plural: ''powiaty'') is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture ( LAU-1, formerly NUTS-4) in other countries. The term "''powia ...

Łuck Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the Capital city, administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (oblast, province) and the administrative center o ...

of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in prewar Poland. See also: The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of

Trochenbrod Trochenbrod or Trohinbrod, also in Polish: ''Zofiówka'', or in russian: Софиевка (Sofievka), in uk, Трохимбрід (Trokhymbrid), he, טרוכנברוד, was an exclusively Jewish shtetl – a small town, with an area of – loc ...

and Lozisht.Beit Tal (2007)
Trochenbrod & Lozisht community website.
Internet Archive. See also

by Avrom Bendavid-Val. ''A Lost History'', official website. Internet Archive. Trochenbrod and Lozisht holocaust memorial

Trochenbrod and Lozisht holocaust memorial

Ignatówka (Lozisht) was founded in 1838, and had grown to approximately 1,200 inhabitants by the beginning of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. 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, consisting mostly of the

Ukrainian Auxiliary Police The ''Ukrainische Hilfspolizei'' or the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police ( ua, Українська допоміжна поліція, Ukrains'ka dopomizhna politsiia) was the official title of the local police formation (a type of hilfspolizei) set up b ...

shooters who rounded up the prisoners in the presence of only a few German '' SS'' men. According to ''

Virtual Shtetl The Virtual Shtetl ( pl, Wirtualny Sztetl) is a bilingual Polish-English portal of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, devoted to the Jewish history of Poland. History The Virtual Shtetl website was officially launched on June 1 ...

'' over 5,000 Jews were massacred, including 3,500 from Zofiówka and 1,200 from Ignatówka, including some inhabitants of other nearby settlements. The village was destroyed and now only fields and a forest can be seen there.

References

* a book about the combined towns of Trochenbrod and Lozisht {{DEFAULTSORT:Trochenbrod The Holocaust in Ukraine Einsatzgruppen History of Volyn Oblast Former populated places in Ukraine Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine Historic Jewish communities in Poland Shtetls Populated places established in 1838 Holocaust locations in Poland Holocaust locations in Ukraine Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust