Sosnove (Ludvipol) & Hubkiv

Rivne district, Rivne region

Sources:
- Jewish encyclopedia of Brockhaus & Efron
- The All South-Western Territory: reference and address book of the Kyiv, Podolsk and Volyn provinces. Printing house L.M. Fish and P.E. Wolfson, 1913
- I.Altman (ed.), Holokost na tieritorii SSSR, Moscow 2009

Photo:
- European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. Hubkiv Jewish Cemetery
- Biblioteka Narodowa Polona. Hubkow
- Kateryna Baiduzha, Wikipedia. Hubkiv's castle

Rivne region - list of settlements and location of objects

Sosnove (Ludvipol) & Hubkiv, 2024

Settelment of Ludvipol (rus. Людвиполь) was founded in 18 century in Volyn Voivodeship as part of the Commonwealth. Since 1793 - as part of the Russian Empire. In the 19th - early 20th centuries - the township of Rivne district of the Volyn province. In 1919–39 - in the Volyn Voivodeship as part of Poland, in 1939–91 - as part of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1946 Ludvipol was rensmed Sosnove (ukr. Соснове, rus. Сосновое).

In 1847, 286 Jews lived in Ludvipol,
in 1897 - 1210 (84,7%),
in 1921 - 916,
in 1941 - approx. 1100 Jews.

In 1913, Jews owned all 3 wood warehouses and 63 shops (excluding only 2 stores, where non-Jews traded non-kosher meat).
The Jew Sara Ashkenazi was only doctor in the township.


Jewish cemetery of Ludvipol in the village of Hubkiv behind Sluch river, 2019

Ludvipol in the 1913 reference book

July 6, 1941 Ludwipol was occupied by the Wehrmacht troops. Immediately after the occupation, local residents arranged a Jewish pogrom.
On October 13, 1941, a ghetto was created, in which Jews from the surrounding villages were relocated. In total, about 1.5 thousand people were in the ghetto.

August 26, 1942 the ghetto was eliminated. The Germans and policemen shot about 1 thousand people, 300-400 Jews managed to escape. Many of them were later caught and killed. A small part was saved with the help of local Polish residents.


Hubkiv's castle on the drawing of Napoleon Orda, 19 century	Hubkiv's castle, 2018