Trochenbrod
human settlement
Trochenbrod or Trohinbrod (Ukrainian: Трохимбрід (Trokhymbrid), Yiddish: טראָכענבראָד) was an exclusively Jewish shtetl – a small town, with an area of 1,728 acres (6.99 km2) – located in the Łuck powiat of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in the Second Polish Republic and would now be located in the Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. The town used to be situated about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of Lutsk.
Following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939, Zofiówka (town's former Polish name) was incorporated into Soviet Ukraine and renamed Sofievka (Russian: Софиевка). Two years later, at the start of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, it became part of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine under a new Germanized name Trochenbrod. Trochenbrod was completely eradicated in the course of German occupation and the ensuing Holocaust.
The original settlement, inhabited entirely by Jews, was named after Sophie, Empress consort of Russia (1759–1828) married to the Russian Emperor Paul I. She donated a parcel of land for the Jewish settlement in the Russian Partition of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (forming part of the new Pale of Settlement district).
History
Sofievka (Trochenbrod) was founded in 1835, after the November Uprising, initially as a farming colony for the dispossessed Jews, and with time developed into a small town. The population grew from around 1,200 inhabitants (235 families) in 1889, to 1,580 in 1897 according to Jewish archives. In the Second Polish Republic, the number of inhabitants reached 4,000. The name Trochenbrod in Yiddish stands for "Dry Bread" or "Bread without Butter" (German: Trockenbrot).
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