Lozisht was a Jewish
shtetlA shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe...
(village) located in what is now western
UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
but which used to be a part of
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and was called then Ignatowka.
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Lozisht was a Jewish
shtetlA shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe...
(village) located in what is now western
UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
but which used to be a part of
PolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
and was called then Ignatowka.
It used to be a part of a joint community together with the neighbouring village,
TrochenbrodTrochenbrod or Trochinbrod in Russian was a Jewish shtetl with an area once located in what is now western Ukraine but which used to be a part of Poland , about 30 kilometers northeast Trochenbrod or Trochinbrod in Russian was a Jewish shtetl (village) with an area once located in what is...
(or Zofiówka).
It was founded in 1838, and had grown to approximately 1200 inhabitants by the beginning of
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. Of those, only a few survived. The village was totally destroyed and now only fields and a forest can be seen there.