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 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. Subs ...

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

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

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. 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 ''

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'' 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