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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• NEW! May 2019 "Bolshevik Onslaught Red Army Newspaper" Monday, January 17, 1944, Never forget, never forgive! by First Lieutenant Sterlin. Article translated from Russian by Dr. Mark Fisher, March 14, 2019.
• NEW! May 2019 Tsal Kaplun Foundation has extracted names of Lyubar Jews from 1862-63 Revision List (DAZO-118-14-319) from Novograd Volynsk Uzed for Lyubar and lists GILLER, GIRSHEL, KOFMAN, LOYFER, TARAN,and GITER.
  
• NEW! May 2019 Tsal Kaplun Foundation has extracted names of Lyubar Jews from 1907 Voter Registration List (same as Deborah Glassman's list).
• Ukraine SIG Project Lead Michael Levin finds 7 Lyubar teachers on an 1846 Lyubar Cheder Owners list - KHROMLIVYI, ZINBER, TABAKER, CHERNYAK,SANDLER, MELAMED and KUDIN.
  
• See Index to Historian Deborah Glassman's List of Lyubar Conscripts of 1875. Complete record can be purchased for $14 each name.
  
• Search Ancestry.com for family trees or records such as a surname list of WWII Draft Registration Cards for those listing Lubar as birthplace between 1877 and 1897 and U.S. Passport Applications.This website requires a paid subscription or can be accessed from a library.
• Index to Historian Deborah Glassman's List of Russian Directories 1895-1910.
• Index to Historian Deborah Glassman's List of Jewish Colonial Trust Bondholders from Lyubar 1890-1905.
• Index to Historian Deborah Glassman's List of Lyubar Births in the Chudnov Metrika 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902 and 1904. Complete record can be purchased for $18 each name.
  
• Index to Historian Deborah Glassman's List of Lyubar Voter's of 1906 & 1907. 1912 is pending. Complete record can be purchased for $14 each name.
  
• From the Hebrew newspaper "Hazefira" (Warsaw), 12th August 1912, page 3, in a a list of greetings for the paper's anniversary: "Lubar: Baruch ZAK, Haim RAVSTEIN, Moshe SCHWARZMAN" - Translated by Yossi Halachmi.
• Review of applications to restore voting rights to 50 persons, July 29, 1930. Names need to be translated from Russian.
• Index to Historian Deborah Glassman's Soviet Military Records 1941-1945.
  
• Database of Russian Army Jewish Soldiers - 1 listing.
• Contribute to a list of known rabbis and cantors in Lyubar.
• Beit Hatfutsoth (Museum of the Jewish People in Israel) has seven family trees from Lyubar online.
• Partial list of archives in Ukraine and Russia holding Lyubar documents.
• List of Lyubar Landsmanshaftn
• Search the JewishGen Ukraine Database by any surname and Lyubar in the town field.
• JewishGen Ukraine Special Interest Group (SIG)
• Search for Lyubar in free online family trees on the Family Tree of the Jewish People, Geni, MyHeritage, and WikiTrees.
• Search FamilySearch.org (LDS) for records or family trees containing Lyubar. Free registration is required.
• Take a commercial DNA test from Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, Ancestry, or 23andme. Upload DNA results to the free GEDMATCH service.
  
• Alex Krakovsky's Open Source Project where many other Zhytomir and Novograd-Volynsk area records have been digitized and can be browsed page by page in Russian.
  
• Jewish Genealogy in Ukraine has a free surname search feature in English. This is professional genealogist Nadia Lipes' website. She has created an index to records as she finds them in archives.There is a cost to receive copies of records.
• "Leaving Lyubar and Other RACHLIS Family Stories" is a self-published book compiled and written by Lorne Michael RACHLIS in Canada. Introduction is dated March 31, 2017. Poorly sourced, but provides personal family anecdotes about ancestors living in Lyubar. Majority of book is about family after they settle in Canada. Lyubar surnames include CANTOR, KRASNIGOR, LERMAN, LERNER, RABINOVITCH, RACHLIS, and SHULMAN.

• 796 gravestone names at landsman cemetery plots in NY and NJ as recorded during personal visits 1995-2002 by ESK.
• Information about Jewish cemeteries located in Lyubar.

• The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany has confirmed they hold 5 correspondence folders opened by inquirers born in Lyubar; only one is accessible, the others are closed until inquiry is over 25 years old.
• Extraordinary Commission Soviet Crimes is a list of names and records eyewitness testimony after WW II about the loss of life and property in Lyubar during the War. This list can also be found on Yad Vashem website.
  
• The JewishGen Holocaust Database has 27 entries for Lyubar. April 21, 2018
• Yahad-In Unum Evidence Map Link to Lyubar Video Testimonies  - Father Patrick Desbois
• Yad Vashem Untold Stories about Lyubar
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive Online
• International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany