Liuboml

This page deals with a city in Ukraine. For the film named after this city, see Luboml (film).

Flag of Liuboml

Liuboml (Ukrainian and Russian: Любомль, translit. Ljuboml’, Polish and German: Luboml; Yiddish: Libivne) is a city located in the Volyn Oblast (province) in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. It has an estimated population of around 10,300 (as of 2005) and is the administrative center of the Lyubomlskyi Raion (district).

Overview

Liuboml is situated two hundred miles southeast of Warsaw, Poland, in a region known as Volhynia. Lithuania is to its north, Russia to its east, and Poland to its west. Because of its location on the border, Luboml has a long history — dating back to the 11th century — of changing rule.

In the 1930s this market town included a thriving Jewish community of perhaps 4,000 persons. In Yiddish, the town was called Libivne. The entire Jewish community was lost in the Holocaust.

The town's landmarks include St. George's Church, which was built in the 16th century in place of a 13th-century Orthodox church which previously occupied the site, and the Trinity Church, which goes back to 1412, but was subsequently rebuilt, with a belfry from 1640.

Image Gallery

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  Liuboml Synagogue

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  Church of St. George in Liuboml

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  Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Liuboml

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  Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, builder of Liuboml's Branyc'kyj Palace

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  Actress Natalija Užvij, native of Liuboml

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  1918 postage stamp from Liuboml with text in four languages

See also

• Luboml: My Heart Remembers, a documentary film that describes Jewish life in Liuboml between the two World Wars and mourns the town's Jewish population, lost during World War II.

External links

• www.luboml.org, a website in remembrance of the vanished Jewish community