Trochenbrod

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).