sunnydriveinsarajevo:

I can hardly find any more good info on Gagauzia lately, but Dispatch Gagauzia is a great source!

The vineyards in Gagauzia are what makes Moldova famous for wine in Eastern Europe— any why my Russian-speaking uncle thought, when I said I wanted to travel to Moldova to investigate Transnistrian politics, “You just want wine!”

Not strictly Transnistria, but they were allies during their respective fights for independence.  New information on Transnistria is hard to come by, so why not take in the rest of multiethnic Moldova? :)

1 week ago

(Source: mabeobui)

1 month ago

jewish-transylvania-bukovina:

Rădăuți : Post-war archives

Last week we ended with a posting of a 1935 community elections poster, signed by the president of the community, David Wassermann. Prior to World War II the Jewish community of Rădăuți numbered more than 6,000. Most of these people were deported to Transnistria by the Romanian government during the war. 

David Wassermann appears to have survived and returned to Rădăuți after the war and submitted a request for new identity papers (above). The city archives in Rădăuți hold many such documents: requests for new birth certificates or other papers from Jewish citizens whose identity papers were lost or destroyed during the war. Some individuals, such as Maximilian Weisselberg (next two documents) were able to keep hold of their pre-war certificates. Many, such as Taube Zimmet, born in Adâncata in Northern Bukovina (in between Siret and Storojinets), had been deported to Transnistria and no longer had papers. 

1 month ago
de-thenonexistingstate: Kapelle in Tiraspol

de-thenonexistingstate:

Kapelle in Tiraspol

1 month ago
we-are-revolting: Transnistria.

we-are-revolting:

Transnistria.

1 month ago
fyeaheasterneurope: A mother in Chisinau mourns for her son, killed 21 years ago in the War of Transnistria.

fyeaheasterneurope:

A mother in Chisinau mourns for her son, killed 21 years ago in the War of Transnistria.

(via sunnydriveinsarajevo)

2 months ago

Jewish Orphans in Transnistria

I might not have written about it yet, but Transnistria was filled with Nazi prison and death camps set up by the Nazi-Allied Romanians in WW2, led by general Anton Ionescu.

Many children became orphans in or on their way to the camps, and the site tells a sad story of hope and help in the face of massacre. Jewish groups with little to their names after the war sent supplies to orphanages, as did the Romanian government, in an attempt to lessen the blame on themselves.

See more on the Romanian Occupation at my Odessa History blog: http://odessahistory-eabosch2012.blogspot.com/2012/04/1941-and-romanian-occupation.html?m=1

4 months ago
sovietbuildings: Transnistria, Tiraspol, state housing project

sovietbuildings:

Transnistria, Tiraspol, state housing project

4 months ago

Moldova Inches Forward, Transnistria Waits...

garethinmoldova:

EU-Moldova association agreement expected to be signed & ratified in late 2013.
Transnistria and Russia reject settlement plan of “5+2” talks.

4 months ago
Source: http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Chisinau-Comrat-Tiraspol/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=5

Source: http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Chisinau-Comrat-Tiraspol/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=5

5 months ago