Butsni (Ukrainian: Буцні) is a village in Letychiv hromada (Летичівська селищна громада), Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. In the past it was known as Butsnevtsy[1] (Polish: Bucniowce, Russian: Буцневцы / Буцнёвцы, Ukrainian: Буцніовци,[2] Буцнівці[3]), a small town in Poland, Russian Empire, Ukraine and early Soviet Union. It was devastated during World War II.
Butsni
Буцні | |
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| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Khmelnytskyi |
| Raion | Khmelnytskyi |
| Hromada | Letychiv settlement hromada |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 133 |
According to the 2021 Census, the population was 133.
History
editBucniowce was a miasteczko in gmina Wójtowce, powiat latyczowski (later Letichevsky Uyezd, Podolian Governorate, Russian Empire), by the Zhar River.[4] In 1880 it had population of 580, including 16 persons of odnodvortsy (petty szlachta deprived of nobility in Russian Empire after the Partitions of Poland) and 90 Jews.[4] According to the 1897 Russian census, its population was 1265, of which 304 were Jews.[5]
Jewish history
editIn Yiddish, it was called Butsnevits, and the search of this shtetl was the subject of Jack Rothman's book Searching for Butsnevits: A Shtetl Tale (2016) [6] - the place where his ancestors lived.
The fate of the Jews of Butsnevtsy is discussed, along with other Jewish communities of Letichev district, in the two-volume set by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock, The Road from Letichev [7]
The neglected old Jewish cemetery is located in the wood nearby (49°17′46″N 27°45′17″E / 49.29613°N 27.75460°E) and is used for cattle grazing. Found tombstones date in the range from 1749 to 1871.[8]
References
edit- ^ Ольга Грель, Населені пункти на території сучасного Летичівського району, що згадуються у документах ХV століття
- ^ Statisticheskīĭ vremennikʺ Rossīĭskoĭ Imperīi, Volume 1, 1866 p. 121
- ^ Метрики містечко Буцнівці Подільська губернія
- ^ a b Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, 1880, vol. 1, p. 433
- ^ . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
- ^ Zev Hurwitz, "The Lost Shtetl", May 9, 2017
- ^ The Road from Letichev, book summary
- ^ Butsni Jewish Cemetery, ESJF European Jewish Cemetery Initiative
