Obj. ID: 47839
  Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Lubny, Ukraine
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the exact period of the cemetery’s foundation is unknown. However, according to locals, the cemetery already existed in the 19th century. Locals say that once the cemetery occupied 4-5 hectares, and began to be gradually demolished and overbuilt with private houses in the 1920s. The cemetery is marked on the RKKA topographic map of 1941 with a perimeter slightly larger than the preserved part today.
A part of the cemetery was demolished and built over with private houses. During the last decade, the preserved section of the cemetery (the North-East corner) was converted into a public park, in which all the preserved tombstones are now located. Disinterred human bones were found on the site. Almost all the tombstones were thrown by locals into a ravine and filled with land for construction.
Date of the oldest tombstone: 1905
Date of the latest tombstone: 1928