| Ignatówka (Lozisht) | |
| Settlement Type: | Shtetl (completely destroyed) |
| 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: | 50.9208°N 25.6972°W |
| 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 |
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.[1] The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of Trochenbrod and Lozisht.[2]
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 destroyed and now only fields and a forest can be seen there.