Ignatówka, also Lozisht, was a Jewish

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(village) located in what is now western

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but which used to be part of the

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before the Nazi-

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

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Silno,

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Łuck 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 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. 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 Populated places established in 1838 Holocaust locations in Poland Holocaust locations in Ukraine