Village in Ukraine
Place in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
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 .
According to the 2001 Ukraine Census , the population was 201.
History
Bucniowce was a miasteczko in gmina Wójtowce [uk ] , powiat latyczowski (later Letichevsky Uyezd , Podolian Governorate , Russian Empire ), by the Zhar River [uk ] .[ 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
In 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 / 49.29613; 27.75460 ) and is used for cattle grazing. Found tombstones date in the range from 1749 to 1871.[ 8]
References
^ 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
^ "Летичев" . 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
49°17′59″N 27°45′37″E / 49.29972°N 27.76028°E / 49.29972; 27.76028