Trachimbrod
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Trachimbrod is a Jewish shtetl (village) located in western Ukraine. It was featured in the 2002 novel (and the film version) by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated.
Safran Foer's story covers the events in the village between 1791, the year in which the shtetl was first named, and 1941, when it was destroyed by the Nazis. Safran Foer's protagonist (who goes by the author's name and also by the name "The Hero") comes to Ukraine to look for a woman named Augustine, who saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
Although the history of the village described in the book is invented, there was a real shtetl called Trachimbrod (or Trochimbrod; Zovievka) with approximately 2000 inhabitants at the beginning of World War II. Of those, only around 40 survived the Holocaust.
