JewishGen Romania-Moldova Database
Welcome to the JewishGen Romania-Moldova Collection.
This is a multiple database search facility which incorporates
all the datasets listed below.
In total, this collection includes more than 1.2 million records for Romania and Moldova, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, census records, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.
How do I get the best Search Results?
Component Databases:
All Romania:
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1942 Census of Jewish Males
Tabele Barbatilor Census of more than 20,000 Jewish men, 1942.
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U.S. Consular Post, Bucharest, Romania
Emergency Passport Applications and other items - nearly
1,000 records from the U.S. State Department, 1860-1941.
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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.
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JewishGen Family Finder
More than 26,000 entries by Jewish genealogists researching families
in Romania and Moldova.
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JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
230,000 burial records in Romania and Moldova, as well as in Romanian
landsmanshaft cemeteries.
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JewishGen Holocaust Database
325,000 names from various datasets with information about Holocaust victims and survivors.
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Yizkor Book Necrologies
30,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs in Yizkor Books
for towns in Romania and Moldova.
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Yizkor Book Master Name Index
8,000 names indexed from Yizkor Books for towns in Romania and Moldova.
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Memorial for the Jews of Craiova who fell in the Balkans Wars and WWI
62 records.
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The Sephardic Jews in Romania's Economic Life
217 records.
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Romanian Jews Killed and Missing in Action, World War I
881 records.
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Romania Vital Records
More than 30,000 Jewish birth, marriage and death records from across Romania, including Iasi and Bucharest, and many other towns.
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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.
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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.
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Bessarabia Vital Records
More than 167,500 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.
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Bessarabia Revision Lists
As of July 2021, this collection contains 243,735 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.
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Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924
More than 13,000 entries for Jewish businesses, in 705 localities in
Bessarabia, from a 1924 Romanian business directory.
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Chişinău
Commercial Directory, 1940
Nearly 1,300 apparently Jewish names among government officials,
professionals and owners, listed in a 1940 Chişinău commercial yearbook.
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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.
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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.
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Vsia Rossiia
1895 Business Directory
1,500 Jewish businesses in Bessarabia, from this 1895 Russian business directory.
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Jewish Religious Personnel
in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854
281 Jewish religious personnel in Bessarabia Gubernia.
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Tiraspol
Uyezd Revision Lists
More than 8,000 records from Reviska Skazka, 1796-1858 —
including Tiraspol, Dubăsari and Grigoriopol.
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Mass Deportation from
Moldova, June 1941
Information about 2,517 individuals deported from Moldova by the Soviet
authorities in June 1941.
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Moldovan Victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951
List of 3,847 Jews who were victims of Soviet oppression.
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Surviving Jews in Bessarabia
List of 1,782 Jews from Bessarabia who survived the Holocaust and returned to a Bessarabian village.
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Vsya Rossiya Business Directory for Bessarabia
More than 2,600 entries of apparently Jewish names from the 1897 Russian business directory, Vsya Rossiya, for Bessarabia gubernia.
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1916 Kishinev Business Directory
More than 600 entries of apparently Jewish names listed in the 1916 Address and Reference yearbook (White Pages) "All Kishinev."
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1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory
544 records of Jews listed in the “1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory.”
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Bessarabia —
Russian:
Бессарабия
Bessarabiya,
Romanian: Basarabia,
Yiddish:
באַסאַראַביע
Basarabye.
Region bordered by the Black Sea, Dniester, Danube
and Prut rivers.
- Gubernia of the Russian Empire 1812-1918.
- Part of Romania 1918-1944.
- In U.S.S.R. (Moldavian SSR) 1944-1991.
- Today, mostly in the Republic of Moldova
(southernmost and northernmost parts in Ukraine).
Chief city: Chişinău
(Rus.: Кишинёв Kishinev,
Yid.: קעשענעוו
Keshenev).
Bukovina —
Romanian: Bucovina,
Ukrainian:
Буковина
Bukovyna,
German: Buchenland,
Yiddish:
בוקעווינע
Bukevina.
Region in foothills of eastern Carpathian mountains.
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1775-1917: Province of the Austrian Empire.
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1917-1944: Province of Romania.
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After WWII: northern half became part of USSR,
southern half remained in Romania.
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Today: in northeastern Romania and southwestern Ukraine.
Chief city: Chernivtsi
Чернівці
(Ger.: Czernowitz,
Rom.: Cernăuţi,
Yid.:
טשערנאָוויץ
Tshernovitz).
Máramaros —
Romanian: Maramureş,
Hungarian: Máramaros,
Ukrainian:
Мармарощина
Marmaroshchyna,
Yiddish:
מאַרמעראָש
Marmarosh.
Region in the northeast Carpathian Mountains.
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Until 1917: A county (megye) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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After WWI: the northern part of Máramaros became the easternmost
province of the newly-formed Czechoslovakia (Podkarpatská Rus),
and the southern part became part of Romania
(Județul Maramureș).
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After WWII: the formerly Czechoslovak part became part of the U.S.S.R.;
the southern part remained in Romania.
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Today: the region is split between Romania and Ukraine —
the southern half is in Județul Maramureș
(Maramureș County) of northwest Romania, and
the northern half is in eastern Zakarpattia oblast
(Закарпатська
область =
Sub-Carpathian Province) of southwest Ukraine.
Chief city: Sighetu Marmaţiei
(Hun.: Máramarossziget,
Yid.: סיגעט Siget).
Moldavia —
Yiddish:
מאָלדעווע
Moldeve,
Turkish: Boğdan.
Former principality under Ottoman Turkish domination
(which included Bessarabia and Bukovina), 1514-1859.
Moldavia and Wallachia merged to form Romania in 1859.
Today, in eastern Romania.
Chief city: Iaşi
(Yid.: יאַס Yas).
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