Verba

Dubno district, Rivne region

Sources:
- Jewish encyclopedia of Brockhaus & Efron;
- Russian Jewish encyclopedia. Translated from Russian by Eugene Snaider;
- The All South-Western Territory: reference and address book of the Kyiv, Podolsk and Volyn provinces. Printing house L.M. Fish and P.E. Wolfson, 1913;
- "Verba", [in:] I.A. Altman (ed.), Holokost na tieritorii SSSR, Moscow 2009

Photo:
- European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. Verba New Jewish Cemetery;
- Almog, Wikipedia. A memorial plaque to the jews murdered in Verba

Rivne region - list of settlements and location of objects

Verba, 2024

Verba (ukr. Верба), in the 16-18th centuries - the city of Kremenets powiat of the Volyn Voivodeship in the Commonwealth. Since 1795 - as part of the Russian Empire. In the 19th - early 20th centuries - the township of Dubeno district of the Volyn province. In 1919–39 - in the Volyn Voivodeship as part of Poland, in 1939–91 - as part of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1765, 142 Jews lived in Verba and 39 Jews in neighboring villages,
in 1897 - 452 (29.5%) in Verba,
in 1921 - 228 (57%),
In 1942 - 367 Jews.

In the 19th - early 20th centuries Jews made their living from small trade and crafts.

In 1913, Jews owned all 11shops in te township.
The only enterprise of the town, the factory of wood, belonged to the Jew Leib Margulis.

June 24, 1941 Verba occupied German troops. On May 20, 1942, a ghetto was created.
On May 30, 1942, 285 Jews were shot near the village of Granivka, at the end of the summer of 1942 - approx. 80 Jews.


New Jewish cemetery in Verba, 2019


Verba in the 1913 reference book	Memorial plaque in memory of the Jews of Verba and Rabbi Shmuel Mizlis in the synagogue "Ohel Rabbi Yosef" in Afula, Israel