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Luboml (film)
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.''
Liuboml ( uk, Любомль, Ljuboml’; russian: Любомль,
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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and german: Luboml, yi, ליבעוונע ''Libevne'') is a town located in the
western part of
Ukraine
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, in the
Volyn Oblast
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(
province
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); close to the border with
Poland
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. It serves as the
administrative center
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of
Liuboml urban hromada
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Liuboml ( uk, Любомль, Ljuboml’; russian: Любомль, Polish and german: Luboml, yi, ליבעוונע ''Libevne'') is a town located ...
(
district
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). Population:
Overview
Liuboml is situated southeast of
Warsaw
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and west of
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
, in a historic region known as
Volhynia
Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...
; not far from the border with
Belarus
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to the north, and
Poland
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to the west. Because of its strategic location at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe, Liuboml had a long history of changing rule, dating back to the 11th century. The territory of Volhynia first belonged to
Kyivan Rus'
Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...
, then to the
Kingdom of Poland
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Historical political entities
*Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom existing from 1025 to 1031
*Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom exist ...
, the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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, the Russian Empire, interwar Poland, the USSR, and finally to sovereign Ukraine.
History
The settlement was first mentioned in written documents from the 13th century.
[Любомль // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.734]
Until the
Russian Revolution
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of 1917, it was a settlement in
Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd
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of
Volhynian Governorate
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of the
Russian Empire
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; from 1921 to
September 1939 it was an
administrative centre
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In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
of an
urban county in the
Wołyń Voivodeship of
Poland
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.
A local newspaper is published here since 1939.
Before
the ensuing Holocaust, Luboml was a town with the highest percentage of Jews anywhere in the country by 1931, exceeding 94% of the total population of over 3,300 people.
In
Yiddish
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, the town was called ''Libivne''. During World War II, Liuboml was occupied twice. It remained under the German occupation from 25 June 1941 until 19 July 1944 in the years following the anti-Soviet
Operation Barbarossa
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. It was administered as a part of the Nazi German ''
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
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''. The entire Jewish community of Liuboml was annihilated in a mass shooting action conducted in 1942 on the outskirts of town in the deadliest phase of
the Holocaust
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. The town's Jews along with refugees from western Poland estimated at around 4,500 people, were taken by the German ''
Einsatzgruppen
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'' aided by the local Ukrainian collaborators and
Auxiliary Police
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to nearby pits and shot. There were 51 known survivors from the virtually eradicated town. Liuboml was
repopulated during the postwar repatriations.
In January 1989 the population was 10 124 people.
Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
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Historical and Cultural Heritage Monuments
The town's landmarks include St. George's Church, 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. Prior to Second World War, the grand synagogue was a dominant landmark as well, before its meticulous destruction.
Gallery
File:Luboml'_Gorodysche Zamchysche 02 (YDS_7186).jpg, Site of Ancient Settlement with the castle hill and fosse (“Fossia”) in the city centre, XIII-XIV cent.
File: Luboml'_Gorodysche Zamchysche 01 (YDS_7181).jpg, Sign of Ancient Settlement of XIII-XIV cent. in the city centre
File:Liuboml Volynska-archeological site Gord-Settlement-first&second.jpg, Ancient Settlement in hole “Shopy”, X cent.
File:Liuboml Volynska-archeological site Gord-Settlement-first sign-2.jpg, Sign of Ancient Settlement in hole “Shopy”, X cent.
File:Luboml' Georgiyivs'ka Tserkva 03 (YDS 7223).jpg, Saint George Church (1264), entrance view
File:Luboml' Georgiyivs'ka Tserkva 01 (YDS 7179).jpg, Saint George Church (1264), side view
File:Church of the Holy Trinity in Lyuboml with bell tower 2.JPG, Kostel of the Holy Trinity (1412) with bell tower (1764), complex
File:Catholic church in Lyuboml. View from south side.JPG , Kostel of the Holy Trinity (1412), side view
File:The bell tower of the church of the Holy Trinity in Lyuboml.JPG, Bell Tower (1764) of Kostel of the Holy Trinity, entrance view
File:Luboml' Tserkva Rizdva Bogorodytsi 01 (YDS 7208).jpg, Nativity of Virgin Mary Church (wooden, 1884)
File:Luboml' Tserkva Rizdva Bogorodytsi 03 (YDS 7211).jpg, Nativity of Virgin Mary Church, entrance view
File:Luboml' Palats Branyts;kyh 01 (YDS 7241).jpg, Palace of polish counts Branicki (2nd half of XVIII cent)
File: Luboml' Palats Branyts'kyh 03 (YDS 7238).jpg, Palace of polish counts Branicki, back view
File:Синагога м. Любомль.jpg, Great Synagogue (1510) ruined in 1947
File:Luboml' Zabudova Tsentral'noui Ploschi 01 (YDS 7221).jpg, Historical central square buildings (faced)
File:Luboml' Zabudova Tsentral'noui Ploschi 02 (YDS 7222).jpg, Historical market place buildings
File:Пам’ятник Б. Хмельницькому у м. Любомль.JPG, Statue of Bohdan Khmelnytskiy
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
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
* Sonia Orbuch A Jewish resistance fighter from Lubom
References
Luboml.org
website in remembrance of the vanished Jewish community.
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