About two years ago in 2019, I visited my grandfather's birth town of Lyubar and found the Jewish Cemetery overgrown and largely inaccessible. It had deteriorated a great deal since I had previously visited in 1997.

Now, during the spring of 2021, a reputable researcher from Novograd-Volynsky named Viktor Vahofsky, is bringing in a team to clean up and photograph the remaining stones. His plan, over a few days, is to "cut out shrubs, young trees, and grass removing anything that will prevent access to tombstones and photographing them. All photographs and a schematic plan of the location of the monuments in whole will be transferred to the people who pay for the project."

Viktor completed a similar project in Pulin last year and members of that town research group sent him $ upon completion.

Please make a donation to support this work before all remnants of the Lyubar Jewish Cemetery disappear. Donate what you can, but I suggest $36-$180. There is no other way that you will receive information about whether a gravestone for your family has survived there due to the condition. I went through in 1997 and so many stones had already sunk into the ground, were eroded by weather, or knocked over. I never found any with my family surnames. In 2019, I could not even get to the old section due to overgrowth, and the older woman who occasionally maintains the newer section will not be there forever. I will be making a donation and hope with everyone chipping in, we can each support this mitzvah and our mutual history.