LUBORMIRKA

LUBORMIRKA:     US Commission No. UA.05710501.
Alternative names: German: Lyubomirka Polish: Shlyomarka. The mass gravesite is located 400 m north from the road to Khmelnik, near the military airport fence, 5 km from Berdichev in Zhitomirskaya Oblast at 49º54' and 28º35'. Present town population is less than 1000 with no Jews.

• Town officials: Berdichev town soviet, Oktyabrskaya square, 1, Chairman Khiluk Alexei Alexeevich, tel.: (8-04143) 5-22-43, 2-01-27.
  
• Regional officials: Berdichev Community of Monument Security (under culture department), Secretary: Levashova N.M., tel.: 2-70-36. Community of Historical Monuments Security, Chairman Borisuk N.E. (8-0412), Mikhailovskaya St., tel.: 37-08-07. State Archives of Zhitomir Region, Zhitomir, 8 Marta St., 20, tel.: (8-41) 24-45-27.
  
• Berdichev Jewish Community, Chairman Vainshelboim E.E., tel.: 2-55-25 (home).
  
• Morokova Nataliya Borisovna, secretary of "Yizkor Book", tel.: 2-47-42 (work)
  

     The unlandmarked 1941 mass gravesite is unlocked without caretaker. The earliest mention about Jewish community is 1593 (see Berdichev). The isolated rural (agricultural) plain with no sign or marker may be reached by crossing kitchen gardens and fields. Access is open to all. No wall, gate, or fence surrounds. Current size is 263 square meters. There are two memorial markers on the mass grave, all in original locations. There are broken or overturned tombstones. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem that prevents access. The oldest marker is dated 1983. Some separate graves, dedicated to Holocaust victims, are granite, finely smoothed and Ukrainian inscribed. Present owner of the site, used only as Jewish cemetery, is municipality. The site borders an agricultural area and a military aerodrome. Rarely do organized groups and private visitors stop. The site has been vandalized. Stones have been re-erected by local municipal authorities in 1983. No care. No structures. Very serious threat: vandalism. Unknown persons dug in the mass grave. Moderate threat: safety, erosion and vegetation overgrowth. Slight threat: pollution and incompatible proposed construction.
     Leonid Kogan, Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenin St 107, fl. 42, tel.: (04141) 5-42-59 completed the survey 26 February 1997. Documentation: State Archives of Zhitomir Region-Fond 2636, inventory 1, file 9; S.Elisavetskiy 's Berdichev Tragedy(ca.1991.) He visited the site on 20 February 1997 and interviewed Kozachuk Nikolai Mefodievich, Berdichev, Uliyanovoi St. 59.