Chisinau to restore Jewish cemetery destroyed in World War II. Mayor of Moldova’s once heavily Jewish capital seeks foreign funds as a gesture commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nazis ...

KISHINEV, Moldova, April 21 (JTA) — In Jewish memory, the city of Kishinev is closely linked to a terrible pogrom. ... many of whom were buried in the old Jewish cemetery that once existed here.

The Jewish community reports the desecration of dozens of graves at the Chisinau Jewish cemetery. This serious incident follows a wave of recent antisemitic episodes, ...

Unknown persons vandalized the Jewish cemetery in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau at the end of last month, around Halloween, reinforcing an impression that anti-Semitism remains alive and well ...

CHISINAU (Reuters) -Vandals daubed swastikas and other Nazi symbols and damaged more than 50 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Moldova's capital, officials said on Thursday. Forensic experts ...

On Easter in 1903, mobs of anti-Semites tore through the Jewish section of Kishinev, a provincial town on the western edge of the Russian empire. In just 1 1/2 days, in a cluster of streets and ...

Kishinev, the capital of the czarist province of Bessarabia, today’s Republic of Moldova, was a town of some 125,000 residents, nearly half of them Jewish.

Kishinev was the massacre of Jews in 1903. 49 Jews were murdered and mutilated, hundreds of Jewish women were raped and many others left wounded. The Jews had few means of defending themselves and ...

Kishinev, more than a century ago, was the capital of Bessarabia in Czarist Russia. ... This was the response of a Jewish resident of Monsey, New York – a son of the Maccabees, ...

Easter of 1903 in the Bessarabian capital of Kishinev a mob of hundreds fanned out across the Jewish community and wreaked upon them horrific violence, a pogrom, in which 49 Jews were murdered ...