LUBAR

LUBAR:     US Commission No. UA05090101
Lubar is 88 km from Zhitomir and 67 km from Berdichev. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 1703. 1926 Jewish population was 4148 with last known Hasidic burial was 1991. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with non-locking gate surrounds site. The approximate size of cemetery before WWII and now is 0.50 hectares. 21 to 100 stones, most in original location, date from 1925. Location of any removed stones is unknown. Some tombstones have portraits on stones and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns the property now used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are "other." The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Rarely do local residents visit. The cemetery was vandalized occasionally in the last ten years. Local/municipal authorities cleared vegetation and fixed wall in 1960s. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Serious threat: pollution and vegetation (constant problem). Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and vandalism. Slight threat: weather erosion, existing nearby development and proposed nearby development.
     Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42. [Phone 54239] visited site on 08/19/1994. Interviewed were not listed. Kogan completed survey on 07/21/1994.