News Archive

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. 
  

• Bessarabia Revision Lists. We continue working on a large set of records, which will be completed and sent to JewishGen in June of 2018.
  Many sets are already translated. Here is the list.
  

• A new book Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History written by Steven J. Zipperstein was published and came out a few days ago.
  You can read excerpts from it at Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History.
  Steven Zipperstein wrote a number of very interesting historical books, among them I especially like: The Jews of Odessa. A Cultural History, 1774-1881.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• We have completed photographing and indexing a large Jewish Cemetery in Bessarabia - Rashkov.
  
  This is the Phase 2 of the project, and now the total number of the burial records available is 1,451 with 1,443 photos of the stones. The other 213 Unknown grave images are going to be visible from the Rashkov Cemetery report.  You can find maps, photos and more at the cemetery report.


• Please find at our Cemeteries section Cemetery projects we are working or planning to work in near future.

• Added information for presentations at Warsaw Jewish Genealogical conference in August of 2018.

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 Reni Jewish Cemetery. We have 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.

• 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.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• We have completed photographing and indexing a large Jewish Cemetery in Bessarabia - Akkerman (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy). Cemetery has more than 2,000 graves, we have sent to JOWBR inscriptions we could decipher:  1,284 burial records with 1,242 photos. The other 847 Unknown grave images are going to be visible from the Akkerman Cemetery report.  You can find maps, photos and more at the cemetery report.
• Please find at our Cemeteries section Cemetery projects we are working or planning to work in near future.

• Bessarabia Revision Lists. We started working on a large set of records, which will be completed and sent to JewishGen in June of 2018.  Here is the list.
• Please visit Revision List website, where you can see in the Introductory Pages all towns/years which are available at JewishGen.

• Started working on Bessarabia Yizkor Book: The Jews in Bessarabia; Between the World Wars 1914-1940.

• A new website was completed for the town of Ungheny, Bessarabia

Hi everybody,

It is a very important day today. Our Bessarabia SIG upgraded website to a
modern, database driven website.

The address of the website is the same:
https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/

Here are just few important innovations:

- We have on front page a clickable map, which allows you to click on a
district, town/shtetl, and find out what is available for the town/shtetl
- Articles on different topics are grouped in a way that easy to find.
Article are linked to geographical entity: province, district or town
- Search the website: On the upper right corner there are ways to search
the site
- You can meet our Bessarabia SIG Leadership group - click on About /
Leadership
- There is a menu option dedicated to Cemetery projects and also a menu
option dedicated to Yizkor Book projects. Please explore them
- Town and District menu option will bring you to everything about
towns/shtetl and if you are in a town page you may see the articles
associated with that town if existed


There are many projects we are working on, not yet in the system, and we
will continue to improve the site in coming months.
We tried to move everything from the 'old' site to the new one, but if you
know of an article which was in the 'old' site, but not in the new one,
please let us know!! We will fix it
There are might be some minor issues, like a link not working, please let us
know about it, and we will fix it

I want to thank our Information System Director Ariel Parkansky who gave us
his software to manage the website. Ariel not only gave us the system, but
also helped us to making it as best as possible for our members. Also many
help to our Leadership https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/ABT_Board.asp
group who corrected pages, and made the site better.

There is one project which was never added to the old site, but only to this
new site: Gallery of Famous Jews. You can get to it from People / Gallery
of Famous Jews, and there are three sections of the project you can access.
Thanks a lot to Bianca Gamarnik for a great job.

Please let us know if you have any questions, issues, comments.

Yefim Kogan
Inna Vayner
Bessarabia SIG Leaders and Advisors