ALTERNATE NAMES: LYUBOML' [UKR, RUS], LUBOML [POL], LIBIVNE [YID], LJUBOML [GER], LIBOVNE, LIUBOML', LIUBOMIL, LUBOMLA, ZAWALIE.
51°14' N, 24°02' E, 66 miles WNW of Lutsk (Łuck), 30 miles W of Kovel (Kowel), 29 miles NNW of Volodymyr Volynskyy (Ludmir). Jewish population: 3,297 (in 1897)
- Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Lubom l
(Tel Aviv, 1974) - Yizkor book of Luboml [Hebrew]
- Luboml: The memorial book of a vanished shtetl (Hoboken NJ, 1997)
- Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
- JewishGen Ukraine SIG
- Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), V, p. 245: "Luboml".
- Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 53: "Lyuboml".
- Pinkas HaKehilot, Poland, Vol. 5 (1990), pp. 103-108: "Luboml".
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 756: "Luboml".
- Еврейская энциклопедия (1906-1913), "Любомль".
CEMETERY
- LYUBOML: US Commission No. UA02050101
- Alternate name: Libevne (German), Lubomi (Hungarian), Liubomil (Polish) and Libovne (Ukraine). Lyuboml is located in Volynskaya at 51º14 24º2_, 120 km from Lutsk, 50 km from Kovel and 157 km from Lvov. The cemetery is located at West. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with 11-100 Jews.
- Local: Luboml, Krasnoy Armiy Street 2 - Mokhnuk P.U. [Phone (03377) 21146]. Town Housing Department - Panas G.E. [Phone (03377) 22309] Historic-Craft Museum - Ostapyk O.D. [Phone (03377) 21256].
- Regional: Oblast Housing Department, Lytsk of Dmytrotsa S.V. [Phone (03322) 45531] Department for the Protection of Monuments of Vohlinska Oblast, Department of Culture [Phone (03322) 42253] Society for the Protection Of Monuments of Protas L.A. [Phone (03322) 24649].
- Others: Working Group for the book 'Monuments' of Nakonechniy V.A. [Phone (03322) 25348] Department for the Protection of Monuments, Lytsk of Protas L.A.
- The earliest known Jewish community was 1521. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 3141. Effecting the Jewish Community was 20th century pogrom. The Orthodox (Sephardic) Jewish cemetery was established in 17-18th century. Shatsk (32 km away), Sgorani (17 km away), Svityaz (37 km away), Pulmo, and Pitse used this unlandmarked suburban cemetery. Between fields and woods, the isolated flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a private road (Luboml-Lisyanki), access is open to all. A continuous fence with no gate surrounds. 1 to 20 common tombstones, with between 50%-75% toppled or broken, date from 19th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns the property now used for Jewish cemetery only and agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Adjacent properties are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. The cemetery is visited rarely by private visitors (Jewish or non-Jewish). The cemetery was vandalized during World War II and occasionally in the last ten years. Local non-Jewish residents and Jewish individuals within country cleared vegetation. Now, occasionally individuals clean or clear. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a constant problem, disturbing graves and stones. Very serious threat: vegetation. Serious threat: uncontrolled access and vandalism. Moderate threat: pollution.
- Kirjner Moisey Davidovich of Lutsk, Prezidenta Grushevskogo St. 18, Apt. 38 [Phone (03322) 34775] visited site with Svityashuk Petr and completed survey on 8/5/94. Interviewed on 8/5/94 were Matsuk V.F., Sklyanchuk M.I. [Phone 2/13/90], and Osnapuk O.D. [Phone 2/12/56].