Ataki (Otaki), from a travel trip to Moldova, September, 2012. See an article at the Travel section.
Courtesy of Elise Simon Goodman, NY
Sign of Ataki in Russian Cyrillic and Romanian language.
Farmers.
Gypsy mansion.
Synagogue – outside.
And what remains inside.
Inscription on a wall.
Bălţi (Beltsy, Belts), Holocaust Memorial, 2005
Courtesy of Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Germany
View of the Holocaust memorial in the city centre.
"Peace to you and the Eternal Memory!"
Bender (Tighina, Bendery), Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust, 2005
Courtesy of Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Germany
Commemorative ceremony at the Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust.
Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust.
Inscription on the pedestal of the Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust:
"Not all victims of Nazis were Jewish, but all Jews were victims of Nazis".
Bender (Tighina, Bendery), from postcards.
Fortress, area where the first synagogue in town was located.
Fortress.
The north part of the town.
Rail Road Station.
Talmud Torah, 1937.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy (Akkerman, Cetatea Alba), 2007
Courtesy of Tomas Kertész, Sweden
One of the Synagogues.
Second Synagogue.
Interior of the Second Synagogue.
Briceva (Bricheva)
Courtesy of Ayana Kimron, descendant of Baratz and Sadetsky
For more information about Bricheva, please see Bricheva Kehila Website.
1928-girlfriends in Veinshtein's fotogrpaphia, Bricheva.
Bricheva muddy street in the springtime.
Regional gathering of Gordonia youth from Bricheva, Edinits, Sekuryany, Rishkany.
Călăraşi (Kalarash)
Leibe Dubin's Galanterie and Manufactura (Haberdashery and Fabric) store, 1924
Courtesy of Ariel Parkansky
Chişinău (Kishinev), old photos.
Courtesy of Boris Feldblyum. You can see other photos from Boris Boris Feldblyum's collection at www.bfcollection.net.
Kishinev
Courtesy of Ella Romm, San-Diego, California
Moyshe-Duvid Goresht (1870-1941), owned a grocery store in Kishinev on the corner of Armyanskaya and Lvovskaya streets.
Chişinău (Kishinev), 2005
Courtesy of Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Germany
Memorial to the Victims of the Ghetto.
Monument to the Victims of Fascism« on the site of the mass shootings.
Dubossary, taken recently
Courtesy of Ozias Ukshteyn, Director of Jewish Community, Dubossary, Moldova/Transnistria
An old Synagogue building. It was a working Synagogue until 1936, built before 1917. Dubossary was home to 5000 Jews before the war! Today Dubossary Jewish community has only 105 Jews and there is no place to pray for Jews in Dubossary.
Izmail, taken on June 9, 10, 2006
Courtesy of Stephen R. Low, Lincoln, MA
Sign-Anchor making entry to Ismail on the road from Kiliya.
Interior of Ismail’s Chabad center with table set for Shabbos dinner.
The VIP Hotel.
Border crossing from Ukraine to Moldova (Ismail to Kishinev).
Khotyn, taken on a travel family trip in Ukraine, August, 2010
Read about the trip at: Roots and branches: Touching the family tree. Courtesy of Jere Friedman or by permission of his direct relative
We stopped to see a cool old fort at Khotyn.
The fort.
Inside the fort.
River Dniester.
Between WWI and WWII it was a border between Romania and the Soviet Union.
Kiliya, taken in 2006 and 2007
Courtesy of Stephen R. Low, Lincoln, MA
Road sign announcing entrance to Kiliya.
Kiliya’s main street looking toward the center of the town.
Post Office.
Rusty, possibly abandoned cranes at Kiliya’s port.
View of the Danube from Kiliya’s port.
Kiliya’s Holocaust memorial.
Orhei (Orgeev)
Courtesy of Terry Lasky, Centennial, CO
Synagogue.
Interior
of the Synagogue.
Interior
of the Synagogue.
Aron Kodesh.
Pepeni, Synzhera rayon, Holocaust Memorial in the Village of Pepeni, 2005
Courtesy of Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Germany
Memorial to the murdered Jews.
Side view of the memorial
Memorial plaque:
Remember, o Lord, the souls of your children...
In memory of Jews killed in village Pepeni in July of 1941.
Rybnitsa, Memorial to the Victims of Rybnitsa Ghetto, 2005
Courtesy of Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Germany
Memorial located on the former ghetto premises.
Inscription on the memorial: To the Martyrs and Victims of Rybnitsa Ghetto. We remember.
Sokiryany (Sekuryany)
Courtesy of Avraham Y. Kahana, Raanana, Israel
Shmuel ERLICH (next to Pini GELMAN)
Fink – secretary of the Kehila
Shentsi PEKER (next to Mrs. RABINOVITS)
Yizchak LECHTMAN (the ?"Achnik"?)
Translated by A. Kahana, E. Sternbuch
Talmud Torah - Committee,
Sekuryany.
Sokiryany (Sekuryany)
Courtesy of Ayana Kimron
Sekuryany school on a tour in the forest, 1930 (circa).
TARBUT school committee (and establishers).
Stamps of Sekuryany Zionist chapter and TARBUT, 1935.
