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Music, Theatre, Literature
Our Section 'Bessarabian Music' at Bessarabia SIG website is renamed to 'Music, Theatre, Literature'.
Added 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. Biographies translated by Steven Lasky, Museum of Family history with help from Bessarabia SIG.
Among the more than 1,700 current translations, seventy-nine of the people whose biographies appear within the Lexicon were born and lived in Bessarabia. Fifty-four of these have already been translated. Please find at ' Music, Theatre, Literature' section list/table of all people from Bessarabia with towns they were from and direct links to the translated biographies.

History of Jews in Bessarabia. New addition:
Film 'Seven Songs about 100 Years' created by Arnold Brodichansky in 2003.

Holocaust in Bessarabia. New additions:
=Dubossary, Moldova/Transnistria Mass Graves, Memorial
---List of the Jews killed in the autumn of 1941 and buried in the Mass Graves. Prepared by Ozias Ukshteyn, Director of Dubossary Jewish Community. Translated by Janet Furba.

=Orgeev, Moldova Mass Graves, Memorials
---Mass Grave of residents of village Isakova murdered by fascists in 1941;
---Mass Grave of residents of village Isakova murdered by fascists during the war 1941-43. From relatives Rabin, Gertsovskiy, Pikker;
---Memorial for the Jews killed from Kipirchen and Biesht;
---Family Memorial;
---Wall Memorials.

Jewish Cemeteries Photograph Collections. New additions:
Dubossary.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25.
New records are loaded for districts pf Chisinau, not including the capital Chisinau (Kishnev). There are total of 11,385 records available at this time.
Project Manager - Harvey Kabaker.

KehilaLinks
A new website was started and now in progress for the town of Dumbraveni, Moldova by Peter Seltser.

Genealogical Conferences
A new section was added with lectures/sessions at the Paris Genealogical conferences in July of 2012 related to Bessarabia.

Holocaust in Bessarabia
=Sonia Palty, the author of the volume 'Jews, cross the Dniester', was deported to Transnistria as a teenager.

Landsmanshaften
A new section was added with following information:
=Federation of Bessarabian Jews in America, written by Gloria Green.
=Receipt sent to the 'Orgeyever Ladies Committee in New York', material prepared by Patricia Klindienst.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25.
New records are loaded for districts of Belti, Ismail, Soroca, Orhei, Cetatea Alba (Akkerman) and Cahul. There are total of 10,810 records available at this time.
Project Manager - Harvey Kabaker.

Photo Gallery. New additions for towns of:
Sokiryany

KehilaLinks
A new website was started and now in progress for the town of Dubasari (Dubossary, Dubasar) by Alexandr Ozias Ucstein.

Family Memoirs, Stories. New additions:
My Search for My Ancestors by Myra Waddell.

Towns, Shteitlakh. Klishkivtsi (Cliscauti, Klushkevitz), Ukraine KehilaLink website is ready. Developed by Harriet Kasow.

Holocaust in Bessarabia
=Memorial portal to places of remembrance in Europe. Adam Kerpel-Fronius, Stiftung Denkmal fur die ermordeten Juden Europas, Germany.
=Holocaust Memorial to Victims of fascism, Dubossary, Moldova/Transnistria. Ozias Ukshteyn, the Director of Jewish Community of Dubossary, Moldova/Transnistria.
=Memorial at Mass Grave, where Jews were brutally murdered by fascists on July 24th, 1941, Orgeev, Moldova. List of Victims killed at the Mass Grave. Terry Lasky, Centennial, CO.

Current Research Projects. New addition:
15. Make efforts from the group to translate Bessarabia towns Yizkor books.
= Brichany Yizkor Book, Translation Project Coordinator Carla Brauer-Lalezari;
= Kiliya Yizkor Book, Translation Project Coordinator Ronald Killian;
= Sekuryany Yizkor Book, Translation Project Coordinator Carla Brauer-Lalezari
21. Translation/transcribing of Dubossary Mass Grave Records of almost 3000 Jews killed in 1941. The records will be published at Holocaust database and at Bessarabia SIG website. Translator and the coordinator - Janet Furba, Germany.

Jewish Cemeteries Photograph Collections. New additions:
Beltsy
Bendery
Kishinev
Dubossary
Orgeev

Emigration from Bessarabia
A new section was added with following information:
=Basavilbaso - Lucienville, Argentina. A Baron Hirsch Settlement in the Province of Entre Rios.
=Painted Woods and other Jewish farming settlements.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25.
3717 records are available for districts of Khotin and Tighina (Bendery).

Photo Gallery. New additions for towns of:
Beltsi
Bendery
Kishinev
Dubossary
Pepeni
Rybnitsa
Sokiryany
Soroka

Family Tree. New additions:
Schechtman Family from Secureni/Sokiryany by Avraham Y. Kahana.
Vaysman from Bendery/Kishinev, Bessarabia by Ella Romm.

Family Memoirs, Stories. New additions:
Family Krupnick or Crupnic by Gloria K Wolfson
The Driven. Written by Edward Robbins.

General History, Governments, Maps
Bessarabia Maps. WWII Aerial Topographical Maps covering many Bessarabian towns and shteitlakh.

Towns, Shteitlakh. Lipkany, Moldova
The Lipkani That Was. Video produced by Bat Ami Strul.

History of Jews in Bessarabia
David Goberman. Carved Memories: Jewish Tombstones of the Russian Pale, 2000, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., NY.
David Goberman. Jewish tombstones in the Ukraine, 2001, Iskusstvo - St. Petersburg, Russia.

Holocaust in Bessarabia
Yahad in Unum: Catholics and Jews joins hands for Holocaust victims.

Jewish Cemeteries
A new section was added with following information:

• Photograph Collections.
• List of existing Cemeteries in Bessarabia, currently Republic of Moldova and regions in Ukraine (donated by Arkadiy Verzub, Cleveland, OH).
• Proejct 6. Four town translation/transliteration of Cemetery lists.
  Lipkany 1940-1992 lists are completed and available on site.
  Need transaltors for Brichany, Orgeev and Kishinev lists.
• Project 7. Beltsy cemetery project - photographing and indexing graves. The first Phase of the project be ready in spring of this year.
• Directions to Cemeteries.

Photo Gallery. New additions for towns of:
Kalarash
Izmail
Kiliya
Orgeev

Family Tree. New additions:
Parkansky-Erlijman Family, by Ariel Parkansky.

Family Memoirs, Stories. New additions:
Vaysman family from Kishinev, by Yuliy Vaysman.