Kivshovata

Kivshovata (Ukrainian: Ківшовата, Yiddish: קאָשעוואַטע, romanized: Koshevata, Russian: Ковшеватая, romanized: Kovshevataya, Polish: Koszowata, Kovshevataya, Koshevata) is a village in Bila Tserkva Raion, in Kyiv Oblast (province) in central Ukraine.

The village was founded in the 1560s, with official written evidence dated to 31 May 1571 when King Sigismund Augustus confirmed property rights for the village called Kovshovatitse.

[2] The Jewish community of Kivshovata made up 22% of the total population.

Nearly the entire Jewish population of Kivshovata was murdered during the Holocaust, though some returned following the war.

The Jewish cemetery, located at the northwestern outskirts of the village was destroyed during World War II with gravestones used to pave a nearby road.