JewishGen Romania-Moldova Database

All Romania:

• 1942 Census of Jewish Males
  Tabele Barbatilor Census of more than 20,000 Jewish men, 1942.
• U.S. Consular Post, Bucharest, Romania
  Emergency Passport Applications and other items - nearly 1,000 records from the U.S. State Department, 1860-1941.
• Jewish Names in Selected U.S. State Department Files, 1910-1929
  More than 2,000 entries for Romania and Bessarabia from the Central Decimal Files of the U.S. Department of State, Record Group 59.
• JewishGen Family Finder
  More than 26,000 entries by Jewish genealogists researching families in Romania and Moldova.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
  230,000 burial records in Romania and Moldova, as well as in Romanian landsmanshaft cemeteries.
• JewishGen Holocaust Database
  325,000 names from various datasets with information about Holocaust victims and survivors.
• Yizkor Book Necrologies
  30,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs in Yizkor Books for towns in Romania and Moldova.
• Yizkor Book Master Name Index
  8,000 names indexed from Yizkor Books for towns in Romania and Moldova.
• Memorial for the Jews of Craiova who fell in the Balkans Wars and WWI
  62 records.
• The Sephardic Jews in Romania's Economic Life
  217 records.
• Romanian Jews Killed and Missing in Action, World War I
  881 records.
• Romania Vital Records
  More than 30,000 Jewish birth, marriage and death records from across Romania, including Iasi and Bucharest, and many other towns.

Bucovina (Bukovina):

• Bucovina Vital Records  
  More than 30,000 Jewish birth, marriage, and death records, from Kimpolung (Campulung Moldovensec), Gurahumora (Gura Humorului), Radautz (Rădăuţi), Solka (Solca), Suczawa (Suceava), and surrounding villages.

Maramureş (Máramaros):

• Máramaros Jewish Vital Records
  54,000 birth, marriage and death records, 1851-1895, from former Máramaros megye (now Maramureş county, in NW Romania).
• Survivors Returning to Sighet and Maramures
  Names of 2,133 Shoah survivors who returned to Sighet and Maramures.

Moldavia (in Romania):

• Podu Iloaiei 1898 Census
  723 residents listed in the 1898 census of Podul-Iloaei.

Basarabia (Bessarabia):

• Duma Voters Lists, Bessarabia, 1906-07
  128,000 voters in Bessarabia, who were eligible to vote in the Russian Duma elections in 1906 and 1907.
• Bessarabia Vital Records
  More than 169,600 Jewish birth, marriage, divorce and death records for Bessarabia – primarily for Kishinev (now Chişinău, Moldova), but also for Beltsy (Bălţi), Novoselitsa (Novoselytsia), and other places.
• Bessarabia Revision Lists  
  As of December 2022, this collection contains 267,395 records records from Reviska Skazka — 19th century Czarist tax censuses - for more than 100 towns, shtetles and colonies, including: Akkerman (Cetatea Albă), Alexandreny (Alexăndreni), Beltsy (Bălţi), Bendery (Tighina), Brichany (Briceni), Khotyn (Hotin), Kishinev (Chişinău), Lipkany (Lipcani), Orgeev (Orhei), Soroki (Soroca), Teleneshty (Teleneşti), and many villages and agricultural colonies.
• Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924
  More than 13,000 entries for Jewish businesses, in 705 localities in Bessarabia, from a 1924 Romanian business directory.
• Chişinău Commercial Directory, 1940  
  Nearly 1,300 apparently Jewish names among government officials, professionals and owners, listed in a 1940 Chişinău commercial yearbook.
• Russian-Jewish Fallen Soldiers of WWI
  Data about 1,559 Jewish soldiers in the Russian army from Bessarabia, who were killed or wounded in the First World War.
• Jews in Public Life of Bessarabia, 1862-1914
  Records of 1,874 Jews listed in the Czarist government's annual “Bessarabia Reference Calendar”, “Akkerman Calendar” and “Kherson Calendar”, 1862-1914.
• Vsia Rossiia 1895 Business Directory
  1,500 Jewish businesses in Bessarabia, from this 1895 Russian business directory.
• Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854
  281 Jewish religious personnel in Bessarabia Gubernia.
• Tiraspol Uyezd Revision Lists  
  More than 8,000 records from Reviska Skazka, 1796-1858 — including Tiraspol, Dubăsari and Grigoriopol.
• Mass Deportation from Moldova, June 1941
  Information about 2,517 individuals deported from Moldova by the Soviet authorities in June 1941.
• Moldovan Victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951
  List of 3,847 Jews who were victims of Soviet oppression.
• Surviving Jews in Bessarabia
  List of 1,782 Jews from Bessarabia who survived the Holocaust and returned to a Bessarabian village.
• Vsya Rossiya Business Directory for Bessarabia
  Nearly 4,000 entries of apparently Jewish names from editions of the Russian business directory, Vsya Rossiya, for Bessarabia and Transnistria for the period 1897 through 1912.
• 1916 Kishinev Business Directory
  More than 600 entries of apparently Jewish names listed in the 1916 Address and Reference yearbook (White Pages) "All Kishinev."
• 1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory
  544 records of Jews listed in the “1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory.”