Stumbling blocks in Moldova

Stumbling block in Chișinău

On July 24, 2018, Gunter Demnig laid the following stumbling blocks in the Republic of Moldova .

In Romanian the stumbling blocks are called pietre de poticnire .

background

Of the 65,000 former Jews in Chișinău in 1939, 53,000 fell victim to the Nazi regime. The Holocaust researcher Matatias Carp (1904–1952) dealt in detail with the Holocaust in Moldova and Romania.

Chișinău

In Chisinau , capital of Moldova , two stumbling blocks have so far been laid.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED MOISE Berliand GEB. DEPORTED IN 1885 IN 1944 AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MURDERED	Alexandru cel Bun 17	Moïse Maurice Berliand was born in Chișinău on July 23, 1885. According to municipal records of March 15, 1940, Solomon Berliand, the victim's father, was the owner of the houses Alexandru cel Bun 15 and 17. He married Berthe Teplitsky (1891–1969). The couple had at least one son, Iosif, born in Odessa in 1912. Moïse Berliand is said to have been an amusing and mythomaniac character who spoke thirteen languages. In Odessa he worked as a director, his wife was an actress who performed with Yiddish ensembles. In 1928 the family emigrated from Bessarabia to France. He was arrested by the German National Socialists in France, deported to Drancy and deported on March 7, 1944 with Transport No. 69 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. He was murdered immediately upon arrival. His grandson is the well-known French actor François Berléand .
	HERE LIVED Bunya BRON GEB. IMAS GEB. GOLF IN 1890, 1941	Armenească 27	Bunya Bron was born in Chisinau in 1890. Her parents were Fişel Imas and Leya geb. Tent ser. She was married to Itzhak Bron. In the municipal register of 1940 she is registered as the owner of an apartment at Armenească 27, together with her mother Leya Imas. She was shot dead in 1941. She must have had at least a daughter and a son. Jacob Yakov Talpalatsky, the son, made reports of her murder to Yad Vashem in 2001 . The daughter's name was Liba Bron, born in Chișinău in 1917. She was also murdered by the Nazi regime in an unknown location. The son was living in New York at the time of the report. A grandson, Igor Bron, was also able to survive the Nazi regime.

The planned laying of four Stolpersteine ​​in front of Alexei Ściusev 44, where the Bragar family lived, who were killed in Transnistria in 1941, had to be postponed for technical reasons.

See also

• List of places with stumbling blocks

proof

1. ↑ ^{a b} AGORA: PHOTO. Pietre comemorative în calea uitării sau cum “se vor poticni” chișinăuienii de ultimele adrese ale victimelor Holocaustului , July 24, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2018
2. ↑ Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names has two testimony reports concerning Bunya Bron, both accessed on August 23, 2018: BUNYA BRON TALPALATSKAYA , submitted by her son, and BUNYA BRON , submitted by her grandson, Igor Bron. The son gives Bron-Talpalatskaya as her family name and Imas as her maiden name. There is no explanation for it.
3. ↑ Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : LIBA BRON , submitted by her brother Jacob Yakov Talpalatsky in 2001, accessed on August 23, 2018
4. ↑ diez: Stolpersteine ​​sau “Pietre de poticnire”. La Chișinău va fi lansat un proiect de comemorare a victimelor nazismului , 23 July 2018

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Web links

• Stolpersteine.eu