Butsni () is a village in Letychiv hromada (Летичівська селищна громада), Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. In the past it was known as ButsnevtsyОльга Грель, Населені пункти на території сучасного Летичівського району, що згадуються у документах ХV століття (Polish: Bucniowce, Russian: Буцневцы / Буцнёвцы, Ukrainian: Буцніовци,Statisticheskīĭ vremennikʺ Rossīĭskoĭ Imperīi, Volume 1, 1866 p. 121 БуцнівціМетрики містечко Буцнівці Подільська губернія), a small town in Poland, Russian Empire, Ukraine and early Soviet Union. It was devastated during World War II.
According to the 2021 Census, the population was 133.
History Bucniowce was a miasteczko in gmina , powiat latyczowski (later Letichevsky Uyezd, Podolian Governorate, Russian Empire), by the .Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, 1880, vol. 1, p. 433 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. According to the 1897 Russian census, its population was 1265, of which 304 were Jews.
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) Zev Hurwitz, "The Lost Shtetl", May 9, 2017 - 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 The Road from Letichev, book summary
The neglected old Jewish cemetery is located in the wood nearby () and is used for cattle grazing. Found tombstones date in the range from 1749 to 1871.Butsni Jewish Cemetery, ESJF European Jewish Cemetery Initiative
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