Liubar
Liubar is an urban-type settlement in Liubar Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.History
A Jewish community lived here since centuries. A wooden synagogue was erected in 1491. It was destroyed during pogroms of the cossacks in the middle of the 17th century.
In 1793 - 1917 it was a town in Novograd-Volynsky uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.
At the end of the 19th century, the Jewish inhabitants represent 43% of the total population. 9 synagogues, a Jewish theater, a Jewish hospital and many shops are own by member of the community. In 1920, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army perpetrated a pogrom killing about 60 people and hurting 180.
A local newspaper is published here since August 1931.
On July 6, 1941, Wehrmacht occupied this town. Germans sent the Jews into a ghetto. In August 1941, mass executions killed around 300 people in the nearby forest. On September, around 1 300 Jews from the city and surroundings villages are murdered by an Einsatzgruppen including Ukrainians Hilfspolizei.
In January 1989 the population was 2656 people
In January 2013 the population was 2179 people.
