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What happened to the Jews in Moldova

47 events, 1835 AD to 1969 AD

Regions in Moldova

Cities, towns and sites in Moldova

Timeline

19th century

  1. 1835–1852 AD Russian anti-Jewish legislation extended to Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova
  2. 1839 AD Frontier-zone removal decree extended to Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova
  3. 1858 AD Edict of 1858 restricting Jewish residence near the frontier · Bessarabia, Moldova
  4. 1859 AD Czar permits Jews to buy land in Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova
  5. 1869 AD 1869 decree expelling Jews from the Bessarabian border area · Bessarabia, Moldova
  6. 1872 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Izmail, Kagul and Vilkovo · Izmail, Ukraine and elsewhere
  7. 1879 AD 1879 decree expelling Jews from the Bessarabian border area · Bessarabia, Moldova
  8. 1886 AD 1886 decree expelling Jews from the Bessarabian border area · Bessarabia, Moldova
  9. 1891 AD 1891 decree expelling Jews from the Bessarabian border area · Bessarabia, Moldova

20th century

  1. 1903 AD Kishinef riot · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  2. 1903 AD Kishinev pogrom · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  3. 1905 AD Second Kishinev pogrom · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  4. 1905 AD Wave of pogroms across Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova
  5. 1917 AD Civic equality granted to Bessarabian Jews · Bessarabia, Moldova
  6. 1917–1918 AD Looting of Jewish homes by retreating Russian troops · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  7. 1918 AD Romanian citizenship granted to Bessarabian Jews · Bessarabia, Moldova
  8. c. 1922–1930 AD Romanian authorities strip Jewish schools of their Jewish character in Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova
  9. 1924 AD Romanian Nationality Law strips Bessarabian Jews of citizenship · Bessarabia, Moldova
  10. 1924 AD Romanian authorities strip Bessarabian Jews of citizenship · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  11. 1930 AD Pogrom in Bălți · Bălți, Moldova
  12. 1938 AD Antisemitic laws of the Cuza government · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  13. 1938 AD Denationalization of Bessarabian Jewish families · Bessarabia, Moldova
  14. 1940–1941 AD Soviet closure of Jewish institutions and ban on Zionism · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  15. 1941 AD Concentration of Jews in ghettos and camps · Bessarabia, Moldova and elsewhere
  16. 1941 AD Death marches of 150,000 Jews in Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova and elsewhere
  17. 1941 AD Dubossary: Jews hanged and 600 burned in synagogues · Dubăsari (Dubossary), Moldova
  18. 1941 AD Einsatzkommando kills over 1,000 Jews at Kishinev · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  19. 1941 AD Establishment of Kishinev ghetto and yellow badge order · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  20. 1941 AD German squads begin killing remaining Kishinev Jews · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  21. 1941 AD Killing of 411 Jews on August 1 · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  22. 1941 AD Liquidation of 551 Jews on August 7 · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  23. 1941 AD Massacres of Jews in Bessarabia, Bukovina and Dorohoi · Bessarabia, Moldova and elsewhere
  24. 1941 AD Over 150,000 Jews killed in Bessarabia · Bessarabia, Moldova
  25. 1941 AD Romanian gendarmes remove ghetto inmates for forced labor · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  26. 1941 AD Soviet arrest and exile of Jewish activists and wealthy Jews · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  27. 1941 AD Soviet purge and deportation of Bessarabian Jews · Bessarabia, Moldova
  28. 1941 AD Thousands of Jews murdered at Edineti · Edineț, Moldova
  29. 1941 AD Thousands of Jews murdered at Kishinev · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  30. 1941–1943 AD The Holocaust in Romania · Romania and elsewhere
  31. 1944 AD Massacre of 1,000 Jewish detainees in Tiraspol jail · Tiraspol, Moldova
  32. 1956 AD Kishinev rabbi forced to sign protest against Sinai Campaign · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  33. c. 1960–1969 AD Jewish cemetery of Kishinev closed and desecrated · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  34. 1961 AD Bar-mitzvah ceremony banned in Kishinev · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  35. 1962 AD Arrest of 31 Kishinev Jews for "economic crimes" · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  36. 1964 AD Closure of all but one Kishinev synagogue · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  37. 1965 AD Baking of matzah permitted in Kishinev · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova
  38. 1967 AD Jewish students expelled from Kishinev university · Chișinău (Kishinev), Moldova

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