Moldova / Chisinau

Jewish Cemetery of Chisinau

Practical info

Type of location: Cemetery

Jewish Cemetery of Chisinau

Historical description

Chisinau

At the start of the twentieth century, Kishinev had more than seventy synagogues and about twenty yeshivot. Unlike many other cities in the Russian Empire, the Jews of Kishinev did not live in a ghetto, except during the dark years of the Holocaust. While the ... Read more