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World Jewish News
Grant from European Jewish Fund Allows to Open Website on Moldavian Holocaust Victims
30.04.2009
For several years now, there has been a search and registration of nameless graves of Holocaust victims on the territory of Moldova. The search was being conducted by enthusiasts and search teams. Many sites are marked with small monuments, stelae, signs. And each year the number of these places increases. Especially in the north of the country, where the mass shootings of Jews took place, near the shtetls where they lived, in ravines and ditches, on forest edges, and on the way of their transportation to the camps - along the so-called "roads of death".
The search for nameless graves has not yet been completed. According to different estimates, on the territory of former Bessarabia and the adjacent Transnistria, from 300 to 500 thousands of Jewish civilians were killed by the
fascists during the war. Hence the title "Moldavian Babiy Yar" for this website is neither too loud nor exaggerated.
The site opens at www.holomemory.md. Its main objective is to create a large virtual memorial museum, which will
"exhibit" the monuments erected at the sites of mass destruction of peaceful Jewish population of Moldova during the Holocaust.
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