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Alternate names: Basarabeasca [Mold], Bessarabka [Rus, since 1957], Romanovca [Rom], Romanovka [Rus, until 1957], Romynesht', Româneşti, Romaneshti, Romanovo, Bessarabskaya, Bessarabskiy. Russian: Романовка / Бессарабка. Moldovan: Басарабяска. 46°20' N, 28°58' E, 47 miles S of Chisinau (Kishinev), 41 miles SSW of Bender (Tighina), near the Ukraine border.  Jewishpopulation: 1,142 (in 1897).

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CEMETERY:

Initial sponsor onations for work in Bessarabeska Jewish Cemetery, Bendery Uezd. That town had one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Bessarabia and as one of Jewish Agricultural colonies in Bessarabia. The cemetery exists on the map of 1840 Bessarabia. Please consider donation to the cemetery project (to Bessarabia-Moldova Cemetery Project)! Yefim Kogan<This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [August 2015]


[UPDATE] Photos by Charles Burns [November 2017]