Museum

   Like the history of its neighbors, the history of the Jewish people of Bessarabia and Transnistria was filled with inspiration and beauty, and with destruction and sorrow. Opened on the same day as the Library itself, the Museum attempts to reflect some of this history. The walls of the Museum house pictures reflecting Jewish life from the 18th century to nowadays.

A tombstone dating from the 17th century, sculptures, various religious articles and 19th century books are exhibited in the open spaces. There is a permanent exhibition of documents from Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 including pictures and a list of the forty-five victims of this tragedy. The Museum also contains small sections devoted to each of the following: the Holocaust, JDC's eighty-year work with Bessarabian Jewry, and documents and pictures illustrating Moldovan Jewry's valuable contribution to art, literature, science and medicine. Many of the Museum's artifacts were donated by local Jews and Jews around the world.

Hundreds of people visit the Museum each year including young students from secular municipal school system, guests from the FSU countries, Israel, U.S., and Europe.

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From the Visitors' Book:

“Thanks to the Jewish Community of Kishinev for creating this Museum, so the Jewish history of this city will not be forgotten”.

July 1998.

Al Borr, California.