News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2026. We continue working on a major project: Kishinev 1909-1923 Alphabetical List of Births. We are also translating the Kishinev 1924 Birth and Marriage records and the Beltsy 1924 Birth and Marriage records. See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Deportation project. Work on step four continues. Data from the National Archive The collection of documents of people subjected to political repressions during the totalitarian Soviet regime, the 20s-90s of XXs century (Volume 2 – 708 pages) is utilized to further update the JewishGen Database Moldavian Jews Victims of Soviet Oppression. I am currently on page 110. The plan is to finish step four by the end of 2026. The second reading will be helpful. We need a person to help in this project!
  The Project leader is Yuriy Daylis.


• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2026. 2,546 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Aleksandreny, Orgeev, Kishinev, Beltsy. This is the last records we are working on for Revision List Project. See the progress.
  Project leader is Yefim Kogan.


• Bessarabia Cemetery projects. Several Jewish cemetery were going to be added: Kremenchug Jewish cemetery, Baimaklia (Kaushany), and parts of Kishinev Jewish Cemetery.
  

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. 7,537 records including Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Aleksandreny, Valea lui Vlad, Khotin, Novoselitsa and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 209,570.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Avi Shteinberg, Valentin Lupu, Tanya Wasserman, Jane Kvashnina, Nelli Grin, Evgenia Demidova and Emilia Alexeeva.


• Bessarabia Court Records. 3,366 records including records for different courts of Kishinev questura, Kishinev Sigurantsa, Kishinev police questura, Soroka-Yassy District Court, Orhei District Court, Cahul District Court, Insolvent debtors, Kishinev temporary Magistrate added.
  
  Project Leader Vladimir Bokser, translators Elena Leyderman and Vladimir Bokser.


• Bessarabia Revision Lists. 5,919 records completed for 1,270 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Akkerman, Beltsy, Faleshty, Kishinev, Kiliya, agricultural colonies in Soroki uezd - Markuleshty, Mereshevka, New Teleneshty, and more.
  See the list of records in towns, shteitle added.
  
  Project Leaders Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Sammy Lerner, Alex Russakovsky, Michael Richman and Yefim Kogan.


• Bessarabia Deportation project. 1,346 original records had been updated, and 1,345 new records were added. The original database, 'Moldovan Victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951', has now been replaced with the updated database titled 'Moldavian Jewish Victims of Soviet Oppression', to accommodate all the changes and improvements. Total number of records is 4,750.
  
  Project Leaders Yuriy Daylis.


• Jewish Cemeteries. The Cemetery List was updated and now it includes 96 cemeteries Jews were buried.
  Here is a link for the Bessarabia Cemetery list.
  
  Two Jewish cemeteries were photographed and indexed:
  - Gershunovka (Gherşunovca), Balta uezd, Podolia gub., now in Moldova (Transnistria). 24 records with 24 photos were sent to JOWBR, but most of the graves do not have inscriptions. Here is a link to Cemetery report, it includes all images.
  
  - Vertuzheny colony Jewish cemetery, Soroki uezd, now in Floreshti district of Republic of Moldova. 81 records with 81 photos were sent to JOWBR, 29 images of Unknown graves. Here is a link to Cemetery report.
  
  Project Leaders Yefim Kogan, translator Nathen Gabriel.
  

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.