Tag Archives: Bălţi (Beltsy)

In the north of Moldova

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After our Transnistria trip the day before, our group moved further north. We stayed over night in Bălţi and visited the local Jewish cemetery in the morning of 3 March. It is the biggest in the north of Moldova. After a detour to Alexandreni – east of Bălţi – we headed further to Lipcani and Briceni to visit the Jewish cemeteries there.

Bălţi Jewish cemetery
Bălţi Jewish cemetery
Bălţi Jewish cemetery
Alexandreni Jewish cemetery
Alexandreni Jewish cemetery
Alexandreni Jewish cemetery
Alexandreni Jewish cemetery
Alexandreni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Briceni Jewish cemetery
Lipcani Jewish cemetery
Lipcani Jewish cemetery
Lipcani Jewish cemetery
Lipcani Jewish cemetery

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On the Road to Chişinău

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Yesterday, our group moved on through Bessarabia. In Bălţi we visited the magnificent Jewish cemetery and then went further south to the Moldovan capital of Chişinău. En route were the Jewish agricultural colony of Mărculeşti and Orhei with its imposing cemetery.

Bălţi Jewish cemetery
Bălţi Jewish cemetery
Bălţi Jewish cemetery
Mărculeşti Jewish cemetery
Mărculeşti Jewish cemetery
Mărculeşti Jewish cemetery
Soviet monument near the town of Floreşti
Orhei Jewish cemetery
Orhei Jewish cemetery
Orhei Jewish cemetery

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Bessarabia in Black and White (Vol. 3)

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Here is the next selection of analog black and white photos from the trip to Bessarabia/Moldova in spring 2016. I’m glad to have time to work on the images, without interruptions by further journeys. This set contains pictures of Jewish heritage sites in Alexandreni, Bălţi (Beltsy), Lipcani, Orhei, Otaci (Ataki), Rybnitsa and Vadul-Raşcov (Vadul Rashkov). As many Moldovan towns and cities have been fully destroyed in World War II, the cemeteries are often the last voices of the Jewish history.

Lipcani Jewish cemetery
Lipcani Jewish cemetery
Alexandreni Jewish cemetery
Bălţi (Beltsy) Jewish cemetery
Bălţi (Beltsy) Jewish cemetery
Orhei Jewish cemetery
Orhei Jewish cemetery
Orhei Jewish cemetery
Otaci (Ataki) Jewish cemetery
Otaci (Ataki) Jewish cemetery
Rybnitsa Jewish cemetery
Vadul-Raşcov (Vadul Rashkov) Jewish cemetery

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A last witness

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Bălţi (Beltsy) was and is an important urban center in Bessarabia. Until the war, half of the population was Jewish. Not much is visible of that today, but the Jewish cemetery continues to tell of the past.

Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery
Bălţi – Jewish cemetery

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