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 is completely wood scaffolding. Services are conduted outdoors now.	Current 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 is as overgrown as Jewish cemetery in Lyubar.	Many unmarked graves are also found at Christian cemetery.