Hoshcha

Hoshcha (Ukrainian: Гоща; Polish: Hoszcza) is a rural settlement in Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine.

On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Smyha became a rural settlement.

[4] At the outbreak of World War II, Jewish refugees from the area arrived in the town.

On June 29, 1941, after Operation Barbarossa, the town was bombed by German planes, killing 165 Jews.

Due to hostilities on the part of the local Ukrainians, these did not return to live in the town.

A monument in Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv in memory of the Jews of Hoshcha who were murdered in the Holocaust