Jewish cemetery (Chișinău)
The Chișinău Jewish Cemetery ( Romanian Cimitirul Evreiesc din Chișinău ) is the largest Jewish cemetery in the Republic of Moldova . It is located in the capital, Chișinău .
The 17th century cemetery is located in the Buiucani district in the north-west of the center. It can be reached from the north end of the main axis of the city, the Bulevardul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfînt . From the roundabout there, Strada Ion Creangă leads to the southwest. The Strada Eugen Coca , which branches off in a north-westerly direction after 700 meters, crosses a tree-lined park ( Parcul Aluneul ) and joins the Strada Milano . The cemetery is the southwest continuation of the park; the cemetery grounds extend further up the hill from the entrance at Strada Milano 1. It is completely walled in and can only be entered through a single gate.
Over 20,000 tombstones (20,340, Mazewa in Hebrew ) have survived . Part of the old Jewish cemetery was destroyed in 1958 to build a road. In 1961 another part was removed for the construction of a park and a tennis court. The tombs consist of stone slabs and steles, some of which are intricately ornamented, some of which are surrounded and covered by a metal fence or a metal cage. Other graves are close together and overgrown by bushes. The area is divided into sectors that can be reached via main paths. Some byways and paths in the central area are barely passable under the trees and bushes.
The tombstones bear inscriptions in Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew or Romanian; many of them have a portrait of the deceased engraved on them. The gravestones that have been preserved date from 1820, many of them from the middle of the 20th century. The cemetery is still in use today by the Chișinău Jewish community. The number of relatives was given in the 2004 census for the municipality as 2649, while a Jewish organization estimates up to 15,000 Jewish residents in Chișinău for 2014. Since 2002 the cemetery has been restored with funds from the Dor le Dor donation fund . The program includes erecting fallen tombstones and clearing them of vegetation.
The most striking building is the ruins of the former cemetery synagogue from the 19th century. It is hidden under trees southeast of the entrance near the outer wall. The roof has collapsed while the preserved central dome is supported by four central solid pillars over a circular drum .
Another cemetery in Chișinău with Jewish graves is the Cimitrul Sfântul Lazăr in the northeastern district of Rășcani (Strada Doyna 189), around four kilometers northeast of the Jewish cemetery. Unofficially he is called Cimitrul Doyna . In this largest cemetery in the country with an area of 200 hectares, 21 of 268 sectors are reserved for Jewish graves. There are a total of 11,000 Jewish tombs there.
See also
Web links
- Chişinău (Kishinev). In: Samuel D. Gruber: Jewish Heritage Sites and Monuments in Moldova . United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, Washington 2010, p. 17.
- Chisinau. International Jewish Cemetery Project. International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
- Chisinau. Jewish Cemetery. Jewish Memory
- Christian Neef: Moldova. The living and the dead. Der Spiegel, April 3, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel D. Gruber, 2010, p. 17
- ↑ a b Chisinau. International Jewish Cemetery Project. International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
- ^ Diana Dumitru: Jewish monuments and cemeteries. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History workshop Europe
- ↑ Demographic, national, language and cultural characteristics. (Excel table in Section 7) National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldoca
- ↑ Yefim Kogan: Kishinev Cemetery - Doyna (St. Lazar). JewishGen, September 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 7 ″ N , 28 ° 47 ′ 50 ″ E