Liuboml

:"This page deals with a city in Ukraine. For the film named after this city, see Luboml (film).Liuboml ( _uk. Любомль, translit. "Liuboml’", Polish: Luboml) is a city located in the Volyn Oblast (province) in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. It is the administrative center of the Liubomlskyi Raion (district), and is located at around coord|51|13|60|N|24|1|60|E.

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

The current estimated population is around 10,400 (as of 2001).

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.

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. The small territory of Volhynia first belonged to Russia, then Poland, than Lithuania, then Poland, then Russia and finally Poland. Today it is in Volyinia County, Ukraine.

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""- a documentary film that describes Jewish life in Luboml between the two World Wars and mourns the town's Jewish population, lost during World War II.

For a website in remembrance of this vanished Jewish community, visit http://www.luboml.org.