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Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Deportation project, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2025.
  Current step for the project “Moldavian Jewish Victims of Soviet Oppression” consists of utilizing information from “The collection of documents of people subjected to political repressions during the totalitarian Soviet regime, the 20s-90s of XXs century” (Colecsia documentelor persoanelor supuse represiunilor politice in perioada regimului sovietic totalitar, anii 20-90 ai sec. al XX-lea). New records that were absent from the original database were included and some of the existing records were updated with new information from the document mentioned above. As of the end of September, 210 records were updated, and 895 new records were added. By the end of the year about 1200 new records will be uploaded into the database.
  The Project leader is Yuriy Daylis.


• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2025. 2,262 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Kiliya, Soroki, Izmail, Orgeev, Kishinev, Ataki and others. See the progress.
  Project leader is Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2025. 3,924 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Acquisition of New Records. Several new sets were found and some ordered from Moldovan Archive, and also found some records from Czernowitz Archive with records from Khotin uezd.
  The Acquisition Data Manager is Semion Sucholutsky.


• Bessarabia Court Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2025.
  1,148 records are completed from funds 41, 43, 534, 63 and 679:
  F.41 - Soroki-Yassy uezd court
  F.43 - Orgeev uezd court
  F.44 - Cahul uezd court
  F.49 - Management of insolvent debtors
  F.54 - Civil cases of the Chisinau City Temporary Magistrate
  F.63 - Yassy uezd Prosecutor
  F.679 - Chisinau Police Station.
  The Project leader is Vladimir Bokser

Bessarabian Databases. Updates ready for everybody at JewishGen. Records are available already.

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these Bessarabian projects.


• Bessarabia Court Records. 2,341 records including records for different courts of Kishinev, Beltsy, Kagul, Lapushna, Soroki, Bendery, Ungeny added.
  
  Project Leader Vladimir Bokser, translators Elena Leyderman and Vladimir Bokser.


• Bessarabia Vital Records. 6,155 records including Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 202,033.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Avi Shteinberg, Valentin Lupu, David Zelikovskiy, Anna Muslin, Tanya Wasserman, Jane Kvashnina, Yulya Vorobyov and Emilia Alexeeva.


• Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews Records.. 2,494 records including Jewish men, registered in Bessarabia, but residents of Tiraspol, Letichev, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Tulchin and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Inna Vayner, Irina Tulchinskaya, Alla Light, Avi Shteinberg and Emilia Alexeeva.


• Bessarabia Revision Lists. 4,726 records completed for 892 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Kishinev, Brichevo, Kiliya, 24 villages-agricultural colonies in Yassy uezd, and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added.
  
  Project Leaders Elena Shulman (resigned) and Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Sammy Lerner, Alex Russakovsky, and Yefim Kogan.


• Jewish Cemeteries. Kishinev Jewish Cemetery - added 6,686 records with 3,576 images. At this time we have 18,751 burial records with 14,150 images at the cemetery. See updates at the cemetery Report for Kishinev Jewish cemetery.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 3,669 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Kiliya, Soroki, Tuchkov(Izmail), villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.
  Project leaders are Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 4,870 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Bendery, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Out-of-Town Jews, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 2,293 records are completed. We are working with Jews registered in Bessarabia and lived in Kherson and Podolia gubernias See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Court Documents, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 1,944 records now in process. We are working with Court documents from Bendery uezd, Beltsy uezd and more
  The Project leader is Vladimir Bokser.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. We are working with records from following towns: Kiliya, Soroki, Tuchkov(Izmail), villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.
  Project leaders are Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. 1,698 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Bendery, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Deportation Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. 457 records are completed. Here are the details:
  For “Moldavian Jewish Victims of Soviet Oppression” project current steps, first data from the National Archive “The Collection of documents of persons convicted by military courts, local judges, 1920-1990” was utilized to update the JewishGen database. This update added fathers' names, birthplaces, years of exile, and links to the corresponding case files in the National Archive. New records that were absent from the original database were also included. As a result, 29 records were updated, and 273 new records were added.
  The Project leader is Yuriy Daylis.
  


• Court Documents, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. 1240 records are completed. We are working on Tighina (Bendery) district prefecture, Beltsy County Prefecture, Bessarabian Customs District, Ungheni Customs, Chisinau Central Prison, Soroca County Tribunal, Tighina City Court.
  The project leader is Vladimir Boxer.
  If you would like to help translate such records, please write to vbokser@jewishgen.org.
  

We need translators for other projects too, including Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews. Please email to Yefim Kogan at yefimkogan999@gmail.com.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates ready for everybody at JewishGen. Records are available already.

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these Bessarabian projects.


• Bessarabia Vital Records. 5,812 records including Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Soroki and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 195,800.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Avi Shteinberg, Valentin Lupu, David Zelikovskiy, Alla Rabinovich, Anna Muslin and Emilia Alexeeva.


• Bessarabia Revision Lists. 12,114 records completed for 2,334 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Kishinev, Bendery, Faleshty, Kiliya, several villages-agricultural colonies, and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added.
  
  Project Leaders Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Michael Richman, Sammy Lerner, Vladimir Bokser, Julia Maksimova, Alex Russakovsky, and Yefim Kogan.


• Bessarabia Court Records. 5,952 records including records for different courts of Kishinev, Beltsy, Brichany, Kagul, Leovo and Tiraspol added.
  
  Project Leader Vladimir Bokser, translators Elena Leyderman, Genny Imas, Margarita Samoylova, and Vladimir Bokser.


• Moldavian Jews Victims of Soviet Oppression. At this phase the source from National Archive of Republic Moldova “The collection of documents of people expelled and deported from the territory of RASSM and RSSM” has been utilized to update records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951”. Existing records are updated with Father’s name, Birthplace, years of exile and a link to the case file in the National Archive of Moldova. Also new records missing in the original database were added. 1040 original records have been updated and 291 new records have been added.
  
  Project Leader Yuriy Daylis. If you would like to help translating such records, please email to daylisy@gmail.com.


• Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews. We are starting this project. It has a lot of families who were registered in Bessarabia, but lived in Podolia, Kherson or other gubernias of Russian Empire.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva. We need translators for the project. Please email to emilia1.alexeeva@gmail.com.


• Jewish Cemeteries. Completed indexing of Kaushany Old Jewish Cemetery and Kaushany New Jewish cemetery. Both cemeteries were destroyed in 1920-30s and 1970-80s. See cemetery Report for Kaushany Old Jewish cemetery.
  See cemetery Report for Kaushany New Jewish cemetery.
  
  Also two cemeteries in Teleneshty (Old and New) were updated, and here are the reports See cemetery Report for Teleneshty Old Jewish cemetery. and See cemetery Report for Teleneshty New Jewish cemetery.