List of Victims of Kishinev Pogrom of 1903

The list below is the result of merging information contained in 2 published documents:

Within the Pale: The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia, Michael Davitt, London, 1903

Davitt was an Irish journalist who visited Kishinev after the pogrom, and reported on it for two New York newspapers. The list there is an early one and is incomplete, but does have the genealogical benefit of often including the patronymic names.

Ha-Pogrom Be-Kishineff - Pesach 1903-Pesach 1963, Tel Aviv, 1963

This book, published on the 60th anniversary of the pogrom includes a copy of an original incomplete list (in Hebrew, awkwardly translated by a colleague and I).

Some of the other details here are either from Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom, and excellent book written by Edward H. Judge (New York University Press, 1992; recently published in paperback as well) or from personal correspondence with Judge.

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There were apparently 49 Jewish victim who died during or as a result of the pogrom (38 male, 11 females, including several children). According to the chief surgeon of the Kishinev Jewish Hospital, 37 were dead when they were brought to the hospital during the pogrom, 4 died at home following the pogrom, and 8 died in the hospital as a result of injuries received during the pogrom.

My list has only 46 people (including 6 females and one child of unknown gender). It is possible that I have listed someone as dead who was only injured, or that I have listed a single person twice due to a confusion of names. Clearly, not all those who lost their lives due to the pogrom are mentioned in the two lists I have located. Nevertheless it is a start.

I hope to get additional information from Prof. Judge and a colleague of his in Kishinev (now Chisinau, Moldova) who has done extensive pogrom research. If I ultimately have additional information, I will integrate it.

In some cases, the sources have additional information about how the person died (often a very ugly story).

Where the different sources yielded several names for the same person, I have included both (as in "Mordechai/Mottel").

Alan Greenberg: alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca

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I have added the 47th victim based on the article provided by Rosemarie Cohen (see article Morris Cohen Keeps a Promise)

Ariel Parkansky

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Kishinev 1903 Pogrom Victims

	First Name(s)	Surname	Gender
1	Benja/Benjamin Shimenov	Baranovitz	M
2	Isaac/Yitschok	Belitzkah/Byeletsky	M
3	Itlia/Itel	Berger	F
4	Hosea/Joshua Abramovitz	Berladsky	M
5	Hirsch/Tsvi Chaimov	Bolgar	M
6	Aaron Isaacov	Brachman	M
7	David Abrahamov	Charidon	M
8	(sister - age 12)	Chatzkalovitz/Chaskelevitz	F
9	David Nissleov	Chatzkalovitz/Chaskelevitz	M
10	Abraham Router	Cohen/Kogan	M
11	David	Drachman	M
12	Chaia Sarah Abramovna	Fanarzei/Fanarnei	M
13	Eiss/Zusya Davidovitz	Fanarzei/Fanarnei	M
14	Simeon/Shimon	Fishman	M
15	Ben-Zion Leibov	Galantor/Salapter	M
16	(child)	Golder	?
17	Chaim Leib/Leibov	Goldiss	M
18	Joseph Hirsch/Tsvi Danilov	Greenberg	M
19	Mordecai/Mottel	Greenspoon	M
20	Kopel Davidovitz	Kainarsky	M
21	Joseph Abramovitz	Kantor	M
22	Rose/Raiza Falikovna	Katzap	M
23	Kaela	Kaza/Konza	M
24	(husband)	Keigelman	M
25	Chaia Leah	Keigelman	F
26	Moshe Samuel/Tsvi	Kiegel	M
27	Beila Leiserovna	Kodja?	F
28	Idel/Jehudah	Krupnik	M
29	Isaac/Yitschok	Krupnik	M
30	Shmuel/Michel Shaev	Lashkoff	M
31	Hirsch/Tsvi Yankelev	Liss	M
32	Moses/Moshe Chaskelov	Makhlin	M
33	Mottel/Mordechai Davidovitz	Menduk	M
34	(man)	Newman	M
35	Chaim Nissinov	Nissenson	M
36	Isaac/Yitzshok Yankelov	Rosenfeld	M
37	Israel Leiserovitz	Selstein/Shalistal	M
38	Michel/Yachael Josiphov	Seltzer	M
39	Pinya Isaacov	Spivak	F
40	Jacob Elchunov	Tounik	M
41	Israel Yacoblewitz	Ulmer	M
42	Samuel/Shmuel Baruch	Urrman	M
43	Feiga	Voulyar/Wouller	F
44	Leinha/Simcha	Voulyar/Wouller	M
45	Abraham Yitschok/Router	Weinstein	M
46	Kalman	Wolowitz/Volovitz	M
47	(Rabbi) Mordecai	Alpert	M