Lokachi

Location in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Lokachi is an urban settlement (town) in Volyn Oblast (province), located in the historic region of the Volhynia. It is a administrative seat of the Lokachi Raion. Population: 3,887 (2015 est.)^[1]

History

In 1921, the Jewish population of the village was 1,265. The total population of the town in 1937 was 1,790. The Germans entered the town on June 1941. A Judenrat was soon established. The Jews were forced to move to a ghetto in November 1941. The ghetto started to be closed in with a fence in February 1942. Many Jews of the ghetto were subjected to forced labor. On September 9, 1942, the German gendarmerie and the Ukrainian police liquidated the ghetto. More than 1,500 Jews were killed in a grave.^[2]

References

↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
↑ http://yahadmap.org/#village/lokachi-volyn-ukraine.158

External links

Lokachi at the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia

Administrative divisions of Volyn Oblast

Administrative center: Lutsk

Raions

Cities

Regional	Kovel Lutsk Novovolynsk Volodymyr-Volynskyi

District	Berestechko Horokhiv Kamin-Kashyrskyi Kivertsi Liuboml Rozhyshche Ustyluh

Urban-type settlements
Category:Volyn Oblast

Coordinates: 50°44′18″N 24°38′14″E / 50.7383°N 24.6372°E / 50.7383; 24.6372

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