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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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Trip Photos to Lyubar, Ukraine 1997-1999

Ellen SHINDELMAN KOWITT's Shtetl Travelogue


"Lyubar" agricultural signpost

First view entering Lyubar

"Lyubar" sign

1923 memorial - presumably commemorating the civil war

Tank memorial commemorating WWII


Cows on the road

Road sign to Lyubar

The only building standing that was formerly a Jewish property - a cheder or talmud torah school. Now is a printing press.

Approaching the Jewish mass gravesite in the forest.

Approaching the Jewish mass gravesite in the forest.

BONDERCHUK and SHINDELMAN families gather at the mass grave memorial. Freida KAPER SHINDELMAN and her son Yosel SHINDELMAN were likely murdered here.

Memorial to Soviet guerilla partisans that died fighting in Lyubar during WWII. Located next to Jewish mass grave.

Entrance from road to Jewish cemetery

Property adjacent to Jewish cemetery now used as a commerical property.

Old stone gatepost to Jewish cemetery - off road.

Remnants of Jewish cemetery

Remnants of Jewish cemetery

Remnants of Jewish cemetery

One of few legible gravestones

One of few legible gravestones

One of few legible gravestones

One of few legible gravestones



Animal bones found at Jewish cemetery.

Remnants of Jewish cemetery

Remnants of Jewish cemetery

Remnants of Jewish cemetery

Lighting a yizkor memorial candle with local schoolchildren at the Lyubar Jewish cemetery.

Lyubar town center

Lyubar town center

Telephone-telegraph store

Bus station

Residential Lyubar

Residential Lyubar

Residential Lyubar

Park in Lyubar commemorating Lyubar casualties in WWII. No mention of Jewish victims. This is the site of the former SHINDELMAN home.

Property where Yosef SHINDELMAN's house stood
circa 1900-1941.

Russian inscription on monument in park.

An older home in Lyubar

Residential Lyubar

Residential Lyubar

Residential Lyubar

An outhouse

Residential Lyubar

Residential Lyubar

The oldest standing Orthodox Church

1 of 3 Orthodox Churches

Perhaps the oldest standing building in Lyubar - the 17th century Dominican Catholic Church.

Interior of Catholic Church in 1999 was entirely wood scaffolding. Services were conducted outdoors.

1999 Priest at Catholic Church.

1 of 6 Christian cemeteries remaining in Lyubar. Perhaps non-Christians were also buried here according to the Catholic Priest.

Christian cemetery in 1999 was as overgrown as Jewish cemetery in Lyubar.

Many unmarked graves are also found at Christian cemetery.

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