Lozisht

{{Short description|Former shtetl in Wołyń Voivodeship (modern-day Ukraine)}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Ignatówka (Lozisht)

| settlement_type = Shtetl (completely destroyed)

| image_map = {{location mark|float=center | image=WW2-Holocaust-Poland.PNG |width=250 |x%=85.6 |y%= 60.1 }}

| map_caption=Lozisht location east of Belzec in World War II

| pushpin_map = Ukraine

| pushpin_label_position = right

| pushpin_mapsize = 250px

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of destroyed town of Ignatówka (Lozisht) within present-day Ukraine

| coordinates = {{coord|50|55|15|N|25|41|50|E|region:UA|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Russian Empire, then in Second Polish Republic

| established_title = Founded

| established_date = 1838, Russian Empire

| extinct_title = Destroyed

| extinct_date = 1942, during the Holocaust by bullets

| area_total_km2 =

| website = {{URL|http://heavensareempty.com/website/Synopsis.html}}

}}

Ignatówka, also Lozisht, 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.{{cite journal |title=Powiat Łucki |journal=Wołyński Dziennik Wojewódzki |date=1936 |number=1 |at=Pos. 345 at page 63 |url=http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/plain-content?id=85810 }} See also: {{cite web |author=Strony o Wołyniu |url=http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/zofjowka-07.html |title=Zofjówka |work=Town description in the Polish language, with location map, statistical data, and a short list of prominent individuals |publisher=Wolyn.ovh.org |year=2008 |access-date=2016-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127084709/http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/zofjowka-07.html |archive-date=2016-11-27 }} The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of Trochenbrod and Lozisht.Beit Tal (2007), [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229104530/http://www.bet-tal.com/index.aspx?id=2404 Trochenbrod & Lozisht community website.] Internet Archive. See also: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111124070822/http://heavensareempty.com/website/Welcome_to_Heavens.html The Heavens Are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod] by Avrom Bendavid-Val. A Lost History, official website. Internet Archive.

File:Trochenbrod and Lozisht holocaust memorial.JPG 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,{{cite web|url=http://sokolowg.tripod.com/troch.htm |title=Trochinbrod - Zofiowka |orig-date=original material written before World War II |date=April 22, 1999 |access-date=24 December 2014 |author=Eleazar Barco (Bork) |author2=Samuel Sokolow |translator=Karen Engel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302071215/http://sokolowg.tripod.com/troch.htm |archive-date=2 March 2014}}{{rs|date=October 2023}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/zofiowka/5,historia/ | title=Zofiówka | publisher=POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews | year=2010 | access-date=25 December 2014 | author=Beit Tal | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230081456/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/zofiowka/5,historia/ | archive-date=30 December 2014 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.bet-tal.com/index.aspx?id=2421 |title=Truchenbrod – Lozisht: The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora |year=2014 |via=Internet Archive |website=Beit Tal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810091732/http://www.bet-tal.com/index.aspx?id=2421 |archive-date=2014-08-10 }} The village was destroyed and now only fields and a forest can be seen there.{{clear-left}}