Holocaust in the village of Bulaesti in Bessarabia
Camps, ghettos, killing of millions of Jews in Europe during the World War II. That is the Holocaust of the European Jewry consisted of genocide and exterminati...
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...
Shoa in Pepen: another name on a map of horror
In the hot July days of 1941, a tragedy occurred in the ordinary Moldovan village of Pepen. One of many that happened to the Jews in those terrible years. From...
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...