News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Bessarabia Revision Lists. We continue working on a large set of records, which will be completed and sent to JewishGen in June of 2018.
  Many sets are already translated. Here is the list.
  

• We have upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova.
  You can see the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here. 
  


• We have completed photographing and indexing a large Jewish Cemetery in the north of Bessarabia - Novoselitsa. The cemetery has more than 1000 burials. We identified the names of 992 people, including names at the Holocaust memorial (1941). 792 images were also send to JOWBR. 47 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Novoselitsa Cemetery Report.


• Otaci (Ataki) Cemetery report was updated, and now it includes photos and comments from Christian Herrmann, who travelled to Moldova at the end of May, 2018
  Vanished World. Otaci's Jewish Cemetery.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• We have completed Phase 1 of photographing and indexing a large and very old Jewish Cemetery in Bessarabia - Vadul Rashkov.
  Phase 1 is about half of the total very large cemetery, and it includes more than 1,300 graves. From that, we identified the names of 862graves and send them to JOWBR (+860 images). 454 of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website from Vadul Rashkov Cemetery Report.
  

• A translation of an article A Loud Echo. 115 Years Since the Pogrom of Chisinau written by Greta Ionkis was done by Bessarabia SIG members.
  You can read it at A Loud Echo. 115 Years Since the Pogrom of Chisinau.
  

• A new database was created 'Mass Deportation of Jews from Moldova in 1941.' Names organized by towns were sent to JewishGen, and soon will available. Also we will include the names at the Bessarabia SIG website.
  
  You can read about the source of the database with information what is available at Introduction to Mass Deportation of Jews from Moldova in 1941.
  
  Thanks a lot for this great job of organizing and translation to Terry Lasky. This project was his initiative, and he completed it, and now he is working on another part of this project.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• We have upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova.
  You can see the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here. 
  

• Bessarabia Revision Lists. We continue working on a large set of records, which will be completed and sent to JewishGen in June of 2018.
  Many sets are already translated. Here is the list.
  

• A new book Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History written by Steven J. Zipperstein was published and came out a few days ago.
  You can read excerpts from it at Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History.
  Steven Zipperstein wrote a number of very interesting historical books, among them I especially like: The Jews of Odessa. A Cultural History, 1774-1881.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• We have completed photographing and indexing a large Jewish Cemetery in Bessarabia - Rashkov.
  
  This is the Phase 2 of the project, and now the total number of the burial records available is 1,451 with 1,443 photos of the stones. The other 213 Unknown grave images are going to be visible from the Rashkov Cemetery report.  You can find maps, photos and more at the cemetery report.


• Please find at our Cemeteries section Cemetery projects we are working or planning to work in near future.

• Added information for presentations at Warsaw Jewish Genealogical conference in August of 2018.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• We have completed photographing and indexing a large Jewish Cemetery in Bessarabia - Akkerman (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy). Cemetery has more than 2,000 graves, we have sent to JOWBR inscriptions we could decipher:  1,284 burial records with 1,242 photos. The other 847 Unknown grave images are going to be visible from the Akkerman Cemetery report.  You can find maps, photos and more at the cemetery report.
• Please find at our Cemeteries section Cemetery projects we are working or planning to work in near future.

• Bessarabia Revision Lists. We started working on a large set of records, which will be completed and sent to JewishGen in June of 2018.  Here is the list.
• Please visit Revision List website, where you can see in the Introductory Pages all towns/years which are available at JewishGen.

• Started working on Bessarabia Yizkor Book: The Jews in Bessarabia; Between the World Wars 1914-1940.

• A new website was completed for the town of Ungheny, Bessarabia