Lozisht

Ignatówka (Lozisht)
Shtetl (completely destroyed)

Lozisht location east of Belzec in World War II
Ignatówka (Lozisht)
Location of eradicated 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; 25.69722Coordinates: 50°55′15″N 25°41′50″E / 50.92083°N 25.69722°E / 50.92083; 25.69722
Country Occupied Poland
now, location in Ukraine
Founded 1838, Russian Empire
Destroyed 1942, during the Holocaust by bullets
Website heavensareempty.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 totally destroyed and now only fields and a forest can be seen there.

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ Jagiellonian Digital Library (2016) [1936]. "Wołyński Dziennik Wojewódzki". Volume 1; 96 pages. Łuck, Urząd Wojewódzki Wołyński. Pos. 345 at page 63 in DjVu reader. Digital copy identifier: NDIGCZAS003514 (public domain). 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.
  3. ↑ Eleazar Barco (Bork), Samuel Sokolow (April 22, 1999) [original material written before World War Two]. "Trochinbrod - Zofiowka". Translated from Hebrew by Karen Engel. Transcribed by Gary Sokolow (tripod.com, Internet Archive). Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  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. ↑ Beit Tal (2014). "Truchenbrod – Lozisht". The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. 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
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