Bessarabia-SIG RD Search
   
To visualize the dropdown menu you have to activate Javascript. Goto the SITE MAP

News Archive


 02/01/2019  January 2019

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

  • Upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova. See the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here.

  • Completed photographing and indexing Reni Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 263 burial records with 263 images and 241 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Reni Cemetery Report.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
  • Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for town of Kishinev, Ataki, Faleshty, Ismail, Bendery, Romanenko see the progress.
Holocaust. Addition:
  • Serghei Daniliuk presentation at the International Conference in Moscow, 2018. Serghei Danilijuk is a local historian, researcher and photographer who worked on numerous cemetery projects for JewishGen Bessarabia SIG. Serghei was a guest for Bessarabia SIG at the 38th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Warsaw, August 2018, where he made two presentations.
    Presentation. ---- The audio recording from the conference. Serghei's topic is from 2 hour 39min of the recording.

 12/31/2018  December 2018

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

  • Revision List set of records were sent to JewishGen in December of 2018. 11,610 records from 2,623 families were transcribed and translated from following towns: Soroki, Rashkov, Ataki, Ismail, Reni, Lyublin, Bolotina, Beltsy, Valya luy Vlad, Faleshty and from villages in Yassy/Beltsy district. See the list. We have an excelent group of translators for the Bessarabia Revision Lists. The total records we completed in 10 years is more then 193,000! Many thanks to our members who participated in this set translation: Alan Levine, Talia Kogan, Claire Stuart, Michael Richman, Ilana Voloshin and Yefim Kogan.
History and Geography / Maps. Updates:
  • A new section was created: Town Maps Translated into English. You will find 12 town maps translated from Yiddish, Hebrew, German and Russian, among them maps from Briceni, Dubossary, Leipzig (a German colony in Bessarabia!), etc.
    The new Maps. Thanks a lot to Roberta Jaffer for her hard work and dedication to this project.

 12/02/2018  November 2018

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:


  • Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2018. A number of Revision List sets were completed for town of Beltsy and Yassy/Beltsy uezd (district) see the progress.
Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
  • We have completed photographing and indexing a Nisporeni Jewish Cemetery. We have sent to JOWBR 173 burial records with 170 images and 264 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Nisporeni Cemetery Report.

  • Kishinev Jewish Cemetery events - fall of 2018.
    October 20, 2018. Prime Minister of Republic of Moldova visited the Jewish Cemetery in Kishinev, and demanded a plan to restore the cemetery.
    November 26, 2018. The work begin on the improvement of the Jewish cemetery! See the articles about these events.
History and Geography / General. Article added:
  • Towns in Bessarabia and in neighboring regions for 200 years. It is table of 8 major towns in Bessarabia and close by area of Bukovina, Podolia, Romania with all countries these towns belong to since 1800 to 2000.
    See the table with Towns and Countries.

 11/01/2018  October 2018

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:


  • Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2018. A number of Revision List sets were completed for town of Beltsy and Yassy/Beltsy uezd (district) see the progress.
History of Jews. Article added:
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.

  • We have completed photographing and indexing a large Jewish Cemetery of Bessarabia - Vadul Rashkov. The Phase 1 was done in April of this year, and Phase 2 included more than 1,600 graves, from that we submitted to JOWBR 1,065, and 613 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Vadul Rashkov Cemetery Report.

 10/03/2018  September 2018

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

History of Jews. Article added:
  • The Myth of No Return: Jewish Return.
    Migration to Eastern Europe, 1881-1914
    written by Jonathan D. Sarna.
    Reprinted from American Jewish History, December 1, 1981, vol LXXI I, number 2.
    See the excerpt.

  • The Jewish Kishinev Guide. Compiled by Sarah Shpitalnik. Jewish Library 'Y. Manger', Kishinev, 1995.
    The guide was part of Miriam Weiner Archival Material donated to Bessarabia SIG.
    Read the guide.


<< Previous - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 - Next >>