Trochenbrod

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Trachimbrod or Trochenbrod, Polish Zofiówka, Ukrainian Трохимбрід, was a Jewish settlement in what is now Ukraine, then Poland, about 30 km northeast of Lutsk, the nearest Ukrainian places are Yaromel ( Яромель ) and Klubochin ( Клубочин ).

History

Trochenbrod was founded in 1835, and was originally a rural settlement which grew into a small town. The population grew from about 1200 (235 families) in 1889 to 1580 in 1897.

When the Nazis occupied Ukraine, they established a ghetto in Trochenbrod. The inhabitants of the ghetto were murdered in August and September 1942. Only about 200 Jews were able to survive with the help of partisans from the neighboring Ukrainian village Klubotschyn. For this help 137 residents of Klubotschyn and 50 residents of the neighboring Polish village Obirky were executed by the units of the Order Police. Trochenbrod itself was completely destroyed. Today you can find at this point only fields and a forest.

Trochenbrod in fiction

In 2002 he released a fictional version of the town in Jonathan Safran Foer's Trachimbrod debut novel Everything Is Illuminated. The German translation was followed in the spring of 2003 under the title Everything Is Illuminated.

2005 turned the Liev Schreiber -based Foer's book movie Everything Is Illuminated.