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For more than half a century, Wolf Joachimovich Kroshkin was the spiritual head of the Akkerman Jewish community.
Read about his life on People Stories.

Dear Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy, Ukraine) Family Researcher,
The Yizkor Books In Print Project of JewishGen is proud to announce the publication of: Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy, Ukraine)

This translation of Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron tells the history of the Jewish community from its establishment until its destruction in the Holocaust.
Jewish Population: 5,625 (in 1897), 4,239 (in 1930)
Alternate names: Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy [Ukr], Akerman [Yid], Cetatea Albă [Rom], Belgorod Dnestrovskiy [Rus], Akkerman [Tur], Ir Lavan [Heb], Białogr”d nad Dniestrem [Pol], Alba Julia [Lat], Dnyeszterfehérvár [Hun], Walachisch Weißenburg [Ger]

Akkerman (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy), Ukraine is 26 miles SW of Odessa.
Book Information:

Hard Cover, 8.5” by 11”, 556 pages with original photographs.

Available from JewishGen for $35; List Price: $61.95

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Check the article on the Akkerman Today Section

Hi all,

As you may know, the Bessarabia SIG is working on a big project of photographying and indexing tombstones in Bessarabia cemeteries.

The Akkerman cemetery makes part of this project.
Yefim Kogan has reported on his March report that a small batch of photos have already been received.
The photographer will go again in the spring of this year.

We need your help in translation from Russian and Hebrew.
We need your help in organizing a new cemetery project.

For all these new trips we need to collect donations!

For volunteering you can contact Yefim Kogan at yefimk@verizon.net

For donations you can go directly to the JewishGen Bessarabia donations page


Thanks,

Ariel PARKANSKY
JewishGen, Akkerman Town Leader
Looking for GLASS, HOCHMANN, KERZNER, FERDMAN, SCHARTZ, ZEIGNER in Akkerman

Hi all,

I've created a searchable database with Akkerman related persons extracted from several collections (Yad Vashem, Ellis Island, USHMM, Business Directories...).

The database contains already more than 5000 records and I expect it will grow in the future.

It is accessible on the kehilalinks site under the research menu or directly at the All Akkerman database Home page

I remind you that you can propose your images, articles, document or people data to be published on the site. This will help to make it grow.

Also, you can provide records of your family tree to be added in the Akkerman Database.

Thanks and enjoy,

Ariel PARKANSKY
JewishGen, Akkerman Town Leader
Looking for GLASS, HOCHMANN, KERZNER, FERDMAN, SCHARTZ, ZEIGNER in Akkerman