The Jewish Cemetery of Tiraspol

The project was started by JewishGen, Bessarabia SIG in October of 2013. All photographs were done by Nuhim Kamenker, who is a resident of Tiraspol, one from small Jewish community remaining in Tiraspol. Nuhim is a dedicated person who is trying to preserve Jewish heritage in Tiraspol, he spend many hours at the cemetery going throughout bushes and trees finding an old grave, cleaning the matsvot Address: Corner of Ukrainskaya Street and Stroiteley Street (Strada Constructtori), entrance from Ukrainskaya Street, across of "SPETSAVTOKHOZYASTVO". There are 5 sectors in the cemetery. 1 - Memorial of Victims of Repression (Stalin repression of 1937-39) 4 - Mass Grave, where bones of Jews from the old cemetery were buried, and also Jews killed in the war. This is a completion of indexing and photographing of the Jewish Cemetery in Tiraspol. The first attempt to get an index for Tiraspol cemetery was done in December 2011; the index was an automated translation from Russian and included many misspelled names, and duplicates. Jewish Cemetery of Tiraspol Number of burials at the cemetery – about 2300. Number of records to upload to JewishGen JOWBR - 2306. 34 names are from Mass Grave. Number of Unknown graves – 73. Images of the Unknown graves are available at the Bessarabia SIG/Cemetery site or directly at Unknown Graves at Tiraspol Jewish Cemetery. Photographs: 2103, from that number 73 burials are unknown. Language of the inscriptions: mostly Russian, some in Russian and Hebrew, and there are several only in Hebrew. Dates: Burials in this section are from end of 1930s. The cemetery was formally closed for burials from 1980, but there are graves date in 2004. There is another cemetery in Tiraspol where Jews were buried. The indexing and photographing will be done in 2014-2015. Our gratitude to ALL volunteers who helped transcribe, translate and verify the records (Russian): Tsvetana Spasova Julia Lombardo Dena Whitman Yefim Kogan A number of images were placed on ViewMate , and with help of Nathen Gabriel Jo Mintz Selgman Ofir Azrilovici Avraham Jean-Francois Malthete David Rosen E Hershfeld we have many names cleared. 3 Thanks to Cantor Aryeh Finklestein for translating Hebrew inscriptions at the Mass Grave. Thanks to more than 20 people from Bessarabia and Ukraine SIGs who responded to request to remove swastikas from 13 images! Parts of the cemetery are overgrown with trees and bushes. It was very hard to get to the graves in these sections and photograph them. Three monuments are on a place of Mass Grave, where were interred the bones of our ancestors, brothers and sisters and children from the Old Cemetery, 1953; Jews killed in 1941-42 by Nazis in Tiraspol and surrounding areas; Jews killed on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) All names from the Mass Grave monuments were also added the index for the cemetery.