Luboml: My Heart Remembers is a 2003 documentary film produced by Eileen Douglas and Ron Steinman and funded by The Aaron Ziegelman Foundation. It compiles survivor interviews, archival photographs and film footage to reconstruct a sense of life in Luboml, one of the five thousand small shtetls (Jewish market towns) that were destroyed by the Holocaust. The film explores the vibrant Jewish life that – once central to European Jewry – is now forever lost. Made in 2003, Luboml: My Heart Remembers was called a "must see gem" by The Forward. Background Luboml is situated north of Lviv and west of Kyiv, Ukraine, in the region of Eastern Europe known historically as Volhynia. It is located near the border with Belarus to its north, and Poland to the west. Because of its strategic location, Luboml had a long history of changing rule dating back to the 11th century. The territory of Volyn′ first belonged to Kievan Rus', then Poland, Lithuania, then Poland again, the USSR, and finally Ukraine. Before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the ensuing Holocaust, Luboml was a seat of the urban county in the Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, with the highest percentage of Jews anywhere in Poland by 1931, exceeding 94% of the total population of over 3,300 inhabitants. Following the Nazi German attack on the Soviet positions in eastern Poland, all Jews of Luboml were killed in a mass shooting action on the outskirts of town in October 1942. The Luboml County was one of the epicenters of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by OUN-UPA several months later. Summary The documentary exposes what the Nazis destroyed, resurrecting the past to depict a tightly-knit community. "Every place you went, people knew you," says an old man. The town's citizens worked together at the market square at the center of town, and they prayed together at the Great Synagogue. Like many shetlach that dotted Europe's landscapes, the people of Luboml shared both a religious tradition and sincere concern for each other. Every area of life, from work to holidays, from weddings to funerals, is described with colorful anecdotes and lively details, by the few who survived. Of the 8,000 Jews who lived in and around Luboml only 51 survived the Holocaust, and today, not a single Jew lives there. Luboml as it once was – a simple