News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2022. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Kalarash (Tuzora), Teleneshty, Ataki, Khotin, colonies of Soroki uezd and others. There are already 4,336 records from 1,143 families completed. See the progress.


• Vital Records - Births, Marriages, Deaths, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2022. We are working with records from following towns/uezds: Beltsy, Bendery, Kishinev, and Soroki. There are already 4,000 records completed from Beltsy, Kishinev and Bendery uezd. See the progress.


• Cemeteries, we are getting more photos from Kishinev Jewish Cemetery, but the condition of the cemetery is so horrible, that it takes very long time to get to every grave. Our photographers are working now on Sector 3 and 7. After these are done, there are going to be sectors 8 and 9 left, which are in very bad shape too.
  
  We got photos donated from Klishkivtsy (now Ukraine) Old Jewish Cemetery, and also I found a person in Ukraine, who will go soon to New Jewish Cemetery in Klishkivtsy and photograph all the stones. They may need to use chainsaw, other tools to get to every grave. The condition of the cemetery is not good. I will keep you posted.
  


• Addition to section History of Jews A great 17 minutes film 'Jewish Painters about the Shtetl' (in Russian with English subtitles). Click to watch the film. Project of the International Cultural Center 'Israel-Belarus' and the editorial staff of the magazine 'Mishpoha'.
  
  A 15 minutes documentary film 'Formula of pogrom' in English. Click to watch the film. Author Arnold Brodichansky.
  
  Another great film 'Where is my home?..' dedicated to Bessarabian Jews (in Yiddish). Click to watch the film. Author Arnold Brodichansky.
  
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2022. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Kalarash (Tuzora), Teleneshty, Ataki, Khotin, colonies of Soroki uezd and others. There are already 3,136 records from 720 families completed. See the progress.


• Vital Records - Births, Marriages, Deaths, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2022. We are working with records from following towns/uezds: Beltsy, Bendery, Kishinev, and Soroki. There are already 889 records completed from Beltsy and Bendery uezd. See the progress.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2022. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Kalarash (Tuzora), Teleneshty, Ataki, Khotin, colonies of Soroki uezd and others. There are already 1,214 records completed. See the progress.


• Vital Records - Births, Marriages, Deaths, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2022. We are working with records from following towns/uezds: Beltsy, Bendery, Kishinev, and Soroki. See the progress.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates sent December 2021:

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Soon they will be available to all JewishGen community. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these projects.


• Vital Records. Bendery Birth and Marriage records; Beltsy Birth and Marriage records; Soroki and uezd Birth records; Kishinev Birth and Divorce records for years from 1913 -1915. Total of 5,563 records.
  Project Leaders Ariel Parkansky, Inna Vayner and Yefim Kogan, translators Genny Imas, Yoni Kupchik, Mike Glazer, Ala Gamulka, Gill Desoree, Menashe Helman, Valentin Lupu, Emilia Alexeeva, Yuriy Daylis, Michael Richman, Stanislav Shvartsman, Julia Maximova, Gabor Adam, Alla Zh., Eti Ganin, Talia Kogan, Nathan Gabriel, Inna Vayner, Yefim Kogan. See the list of towns, shteitle


• Revision Lists. 10,190 records completed for 2,517 families. See the list of towns, shteitle
  Project Leader - Yefim Kogan and translators Alan Levine, Claire Stuart, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Michael Richman, Emilia Alexeeva, Yefim Kogan.
  


• Business Directories. 2,612 records were added to Vsya Rossiya Business Directory for Bessarabia. Project Leader Jeff Wexler, translators Genny Imas, Inna Vayner, Jane Rollins, Alan Levine, Fanny Rozenblat, Tsvika Rozenblat, Bena Shklyanoy, Yuliana Murray.
  

• Completed photographing and indexing of a small almost destroyed Jewish cemetery of Iagorlik, Moldova (Transnistria). 11 burial records and 11 grave images were sent to JOWBR. Records will be available at JOWBR/JewishGen next year, but with the small number we included all images at the Iagorlik Cemetery report. Thanks for Iuriy Svet, Kishinev for donating photos from the cemetery, and to Nathan Gabriel who helped with translation See cemetery Report for Iagorlik.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Completed photographing and indexing of sector 6 at Jewish cemetery of Kishinev. 3,214 burial records and 2,685 grave images were sent to JOWBR at JewishGen. The records will be available at the beginning of new year, but you can see now at Bessarabia website the Cemetery report with maps, some photos, and also the Unknown Graves at the cemetery. See cemetery Report for Kishinev.

• Vital records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2021. We have records from following towns: Bendery and shteitl, births 1912, 1915; Beltsy, births for 1914, 1915; Beltsy, marriages for 1911; Soroki, births for 1912.