Ellen SHINDELMAN KOWITT (ESK)

Genealogy Resources

• The JewishGen Ukraine Database is a multiple-database search facility, which incorporates the databases containing over one million entries on individuals living in the area that is now Ukraine. These databases have been contribued by the JewishGen Ukraine SIG and individual donors and incorporate all of the following databases:
  
  JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), JewishGen Holocaust Database, Vsia Rossiia Business Directories and much more. The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly.
  
  Search the Ukraine Database by any surname and/or town.
  
  
• Contact ESK for additional surnames that genealogists are researching.
  
  
• Partial list of archives in Ukraine and Russia holding Lyubar documents.
  
  
• Landsmanshaftn
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Extraordinary Commission Soviet Crimes document records eyewitness testimony about the loss of life and property in Lyubar after World War II. Requires additional translation.
  
  
• Database of Russian Army Jewish Soldiers - 1 listing.
  
  
• Review of applications to restore voting rights to 50 persons, July 29, 1930. Names need to be translated from Russian. Poor copy.
  
  
• 1991 Lyubar Phone Directory - requires translation.
  
  
• SCHREIBSTEIN website with surname report and list of records searched.

• 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.
  
  
• Ancestry.com has a surname list of WWII Draft Registration Cards for those listing Lubar as birthplace between 1877 and 1897.