Ellen
SHINDELMAN KOWITT (ESK)
Lyubar, Ukraine
49°55' N /27°45' E
205 km WSW of
Kyyiv, 47 miles WSW of Zhytomer,
37 miles W of Berdychiv, 17 miles SE of Polonnoye
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Soviet
Military Records
for Ostropol,
Lyubar, and Starokonstantinov - Part
Two Lyubar
Most records
are made available by
hardworking volunteers.
Pamyat Naroda (Memory of the
People) is such a site.
https://pamyat-naroda.ru.
It
is dedicated to
preserving the memory of
soldiers from all walks of
Soviet life in World War
II.
It is a Russian
language
Database of Soviet Military
servicemen and women who
were killed, wounded, lost,
buried in military cemeteries,
or received military
awards in World War II. The site
has a simple search feature in
Russian. You
can open up Google Translate and
use its virtual Russian keyboard
to type in
surnames and towns of birth. It
does have an English page, but
even their you
need to enter the names and
towns in Cyrillic letters.
Millions of names have
been added and it continues to
grow. It is a free site.
When I put in
“Ostropol,” the frequently
updated site quickly
gave me eleven people from
that place, three appear to be
Jews and seven
appear to be Russian and
Ukrainian Christians. I
suspect that many more are
entered in that database with
the key fact of their Ostropol
birth currently
missing. This means that
currently they can be found by
name, but not by birth
place. For instance, I just
searched by a family name that
I knew had soldiers
in the Soviet Army, and it
came up with Ostropol included
as a subsidiary birth
place but doesn't appear when
you just check for Ostropol. I
have continued adding
these new finds (see them at
my website https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com/soviet-military
but expect that new additions
will be made for some time to
come. When I look
up by surname, lots of review
needs to be done. There were
over 500 individuals
listed for the surname BURD.
Most were not from Ostropol,
but they all need to
be inspected.
I wasn’t ready to
take on the 800 listings for a
Lyubar birth place,
and wanted to narrow it down to
Jews. So I have cheated and have
begun the
search process by looking for
Jewish given names which also
had a Lyubar birth
place. This means that many more
will be found as we go forward.
The first
thirty-eight are just to get you
started and to prime the pump so
Lyubarers can
tell me what other families to
look for. I have made
the information very
simple to use. You have a
given
name and surname. You are
told if a father’s name is
present, so you can decide
if this is a record you
want to order for 14.00
from me, or if perhaps you
want
to go to the database and
search for it yourself. I
tell if you if there is
rank or unit information
present and if they are
noted to have received any
awards. But one of the
most valuable pieces of
information, is freely
given
here. The
call-up area! What
does a
call up region in the
Russian interior, or one
of the nations like Uzbek
SSR or
Kazakh SSR tell you? That
they, or their family if
they had been a minor, had
moved, been relocated,
been evacuated, or been
assigned by the Soviet
government to an area
other than Lyubar.
Some of the regions far
inland in
the Russian interior,
definitely would warrant a
search for evacuation
records.
The State Archives for
that region would have
such records and more.
Another
major city like Leningrad,
Kharkov, or such, might
tell you that they or
their
family had moved for jobs
or education previous to
the call-up date. Many
folks
moved from the quiet
Ostropol and Lyubar areas
to the now open cities of
Moscow, Leningrad, and all
of the Ukrainian
industrial towns in the
1920s and
1930s.
There were over
800 listings for Lyubar. There
were almost 1100
for Starokonstantinov. I don’t
know what portion were Jews and
what portion
Christians. Jews were richly
represented. I am part way
through the large
number of soldiers from Lyubar,
though they are not yet indexed
and ready to
share. I have done a small
amount of
Starokonstantinov. This
does not count
searches of individual surnames
where we may find additional
Lyubarers. Some of
the few I ran for Ostropol had
thousands of files to sort
through for each
surname.
Order any person
on the list for just $14.00 for
a complete
record. Use the contact form
from anywhere on my website https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com
and tell me their name and the
list you saw them on. If they
are not on the
list below, and you know their
given name and surname and that
they were born
in Lyubar, I can do a search for
you for the same $14.00. If you
just have a
surname and Lyubar, I will give
you an individual price
depending on the size
of that search.
Lyubar
Jewish Soldiers in
the Soviet Army in World War
II
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