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Akkerman

Town Leader: Ariel Parkansky

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1900s Name: Akkerman
1900s District: Akkerman
1900s Province: Bessarabia
1900s Country: Russian Empire

Modern: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy, Ukraine
Modern Ukrainian:
Modern Russian:

1930s: Cetatea Alba, Cetatea Alba, Basarabia, Romania
1950s: Belgorod Dnestrovskiy, Soviet Union

Other names: Belgorod Dnestrovskiy [Rus], Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy [Ukr], Akerman [Yid], Cetatea Albã [Rom], Akkerman [Tur], Ir Lavan [Heb], Bia³ogród nad Dniestrem [Pol], Alba Julia [Lat], Dnyeszterfehérvár [Hun], Walachisch Weißenburg [Ger]

Coordinates: 46°12'N 30°21'E Mapquest Google Maps

Projects

Project Short DescriptionStatusView
Revision ListsIn progress
Coordinator: Yefim Kogan Revizskie Skazki (Revision Lists) project started in 2009. The Revision Lists (census, family lists) enumerated individuals/families subject to taxation and identified men to draft into the army. The database contains more than 180,000 records from the 9th, 10th and Additional Revisions from 1840-1870s.
Akkerman Jewish CemeteryCompleted
Coordinator: Yefim Kogan There were more than 2,000 graves at the cemetery. From that we have 1284 burial records with 1242 photos of tombstones that were uploaded to JOWBR. Also there are 847 Unknown graves, which can be accessed at Unknown Akkerman Cemetery graves from cemetery report.
Town Maps TranslatedPartially submitted
Coordinator: Roberta Jaffer As of 12/23/2018, TWELVE maps were translated from Hebrew, German, Russian: Akkerman, Briceni, Kapresti, Tarutino, Leipzig, Sarata, others.
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Document and Dataset Collections

NameTime frameView
“Cetatea Alba”, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2
Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book
Translation is in progress, partly done (November, 2017). There is a project where you can donate in order to speed up the translation.
Akkerman Jewish Cemetery19 and 20 centuries
Photograph of the cemetery gravestones

Master Name Index for Akkerman

ABRAMOVICH, ALEKSANBARG, AVERBUKH, BAKALOV, BRONFMAN, GOLDSHTEYN, KAUSHANSKIY, KHAKHAM, LEVIT, SPIVAK
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Gallery

TitleCategoryView
AbramovGallery of Composers, Singers, Actors
AuerbachGallery of Composers, Singers, Actors
BerkovGallery of Writers
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Articles

TitleTypeAuthorView
Family Vodovoz (Arbit) from Akkerman, BessarabiaPeople StoriesJeff Wexler 
 Jeff Wexler, Los Angeles, CA. Town in Bessarabia family lived: Akkerman, Grigoriopol (Transnistria). Presented with permission of the author, 2011.
The Vagman family of Akkerman. Printed with permission of the author, 2011Family TreesVincent Vagman, Belgium 
 Family is mostly from Akkerman, but some members were from Kishinev, Paris, near Tarutino, Akkerman uezd and Bolgrad. Author Vincent Vagman, Belgium. Printed with permission of Vincent Vagman, 2011.
Akkerman Benevolent AssociationLandsmanshaften   
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