Lozisht
Ignatówka (Lozisht) | |
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Shtetl (completely destroyed) | |
Coordinates: 50°55′15″N 25°41′50″E / 50.92083°N 25.69722°E | |
Country | Russian Empire, then in Second Polish Republic |
Founded | 1838, Russian Empire |
Destroyed | 1942, during the Holocaust by bullets |
Website | heavensareempty |
Ignatówka, also Lozisht,Wołyń Voivodeship, in prewar Poland.[2] The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of Trochenbrod and Lozisht.[1]
Ignatówka (Lozisht) was founded in 1838, and had grown to approximately 1,200 inhabitants by the beginning of
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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?]
- ^ Beit Tal (2010). "Zofiówka". POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ^ "Truchenbrod – Lozisht: The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora". Beit Tal. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-08-10 – via Internet Archive.
- The tree and its roots האילן ושורשיו : ספר קורות ט״ל : זופיובקה־־איגנטובקה (in Hebrew). 1988. LCCN 88195445. a book about the combined towns of Trochenbrod and Lozisht