Sandcastle of my heart

Exactly 40 years ago, in March 1981, a person who loved me more than anybody else in my life much as no one else died. It was my mother, Yasna Fishbein. Sometim...

Chisinau ghetto. Help from Bucharest.

Leaders of the local Jewish community did everything possible to inform their brothers in Bucharest about the situation in the ghetto, and coming deportations. ...

Chisinau Ghetto. Deportations

From the very beginning, the ghetto was considered a temporary refuge for the Jews. The aim of the Romanian authorities was to “cleanse” Bessarabia ...

Life in Chisinau ghetto

On July 16, 1941 Chisinau was occupied by Romanian troops together with units of the 9th Army of the Wehrmacht. Along their way they annihilated the Jewish popu...

Vertujeni tragedy of 1941

Another tragic date of the Jewish history in Bessarabia. On September 12, 1941 evacuation began from the transit camp of Vertujeni. The documents of the Nationa...

Chisinau April – Still Bleeding…

Every April is not only the time of Spring but also memorial days of the tragic events of 1903 that made Chisinau despondently famous in the world. During the p...

“Struma”, the Jewish Titanic

Om February 24 the 75th anniversary of the tragic death of 103 kids, 269 women and 417 men on “Struma” ship is marked. Romanian Jewish refugees had only one way...