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Liubar (Ukrainian: Любар) is an urban-type settlement in Liubar Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Population: 2,179 (2013 est.) In 2001, population was 2,482.
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Map of Lyubar, Zhytomyrska, Ukraine
History
A jewish community lived in the city since centuries. A wooden synagogue was erected in 1491. It is destroyed during pogroms of the cossacks in the middle of the 17th century. 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, Ukrainians soldiers perpetrated a pogrom killing about 60 people and hurting 180. On July 1941, Germans kept the Jews prisoners in 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 policemen.