Lyubar, Ukraine

       Personal Memoirs and Testimonies

• Memoir of Lev BILICH on Yad Vashem website, born in Lyubar in 1926, regarding his experiences during the evacuation, 1941-1945.

• The letter from Olga BILICH's parents, written September 16, 1941 on the Kirill Chernysh's roof in Lyubar.

• Untitled poem by Boris (Lyusik) DEKHTYAR about the mass gravesite in Lyubar. Written in September 1991 and published in Ukrainian for a Lyubar newspaper by Roza PRIVEN. Translated from Russian by Boris FELDBLYUM.

• Letter of testimony of Leonid GLUZOV, born in Lyubar in 1916, on Yad Vashem website.

• Yakov KAPER's "Thorny Road" from Nothing is Forgotten, Jewish Fates in Kiev 1941-1943. Pages 252-305. Published in three languages 1993, Germany. Yakov KAPER was born in Lyubar and was one of 18 survivors (only 5 were Jewish) at "Babi Yar" in Kiev. He testified at Nuremberg.

• Perl KANTOR's memoir "After All" as published by Judith AGRACHEVA in Vesti newspaper April 27, 1995. Translated from Russian by Dr. Mark FISHER. Additional testimony as Polina KAUSHANSKAIA on USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Project Online.

• Anna SHMAIGER KIIANOVSKAIA's revised testimony (February 2006) USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Project Online about surviving the Holocaust in Lyubar with good detail about the ghetto.

• Dvoira MEDVEDENKO's testimony on USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Project Online.

• Gersh RACHMELIUK's testimony on USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Project Online.

• Sarah SCHAFFER's oral genealogy as recorded by Max BUTEN in 2001-2002.

• Bronia SHINDELMAN's memoir edited by Ellen SHINDELMAN KOWITT in 2003.

• Samuel YOFFE's summary of a Lyubarer Reunion held in Beersheva, Israel in 1998. 

• There is a survivor account in the volume of survivor testimonies edited by Boris Zabarko, Zhivymi ostalis’ tol’ko my: Svidetel’stva i dokumenty (Kiev: Zadruga, 1999), pp. 160– 164.        

• Fedor ZAKHAROV's testimony on USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Project Online.

• Efim ZEIDENBERG's "It Was in Lyubar" as published in Turbota Chesed Avot (From the Bottom of the Heart) newspaper June 1997. Translated from Russian by Rita ZAPRUDSKY.

       *Search Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victim's Names for Pages of Testimony about Lyubar Jews.