News Archive

Databases. Updates:
Bessarabia Revision Lists

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Tiraspol Jewish Cemetery, was indexed and photographed.

Family Memoirs. New additions:
Two Postcards from Kamenka, author Ronald Killian

KehilaLinks websites. Updates:
Dubossary KehilaLinks website was completed and available for everyone. Developed by Yefim Kogan.

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Final Dubossary New Section Report and photos of the unknown graves

Conferences. New additions:
Schedule of all Bessarabia events at the 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, July 27-August 1, 2014, is now available at Genealogical Conferences section.

Archives, Libraries, Museums. New additions:
Using the Library and Archives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC for researching Bessarabia, compiled by Dale Pastor.

Research Projects. Updated:
30. Bessarabia Annual Books. More books researched and translated.

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Kishinev - Doyna indexing and photographing project.
Tiraspol indexing and photographing

Additional Reading. New additions:
The Jews of Bessarabia from the Earliest Settlement. Translated by Ala Gamulka.

Databases. New additions:
1940 Kishinev Business directory.

Cemeteries. News:
Fire destroys part of Lipkani Cemetery. Recovery efforts underway. Please consider a donation to help.

Research Projects. Updated:
33. Family Search (LDS) catalogue microfilms on Bessarabia Jewish records

Research Projects. New additions:
36. Kishinev Doyna Cemetery.
37. Tiraspol Jewish Cemetery Indexing and Photographing.
38. Kishinev Main Jewish Cemetery (Skulyany).

Holocaust in Bessarabia. New additions:
History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria. The Nizkor Project. Thanks to Dr. Felicia (Steigman) Carmelly.

Family Memoirs. New additions:
Finding Fera Citron, Part I