Ungheni During the Holocaust

• Links to testimony stored at Yad Vashem on Yaacov (Yankel) and Frieda Barkan pictured here. NOTE: Please be patient - links below are VERY slow to open.
• Murder of Jodi Paroff’s great grandfather, Yaacov Barkan in Ungheni
• Murder of Jodi Paroff’s great-grandmother, Frieda Barkan, in Ungheni
• Shoah Victim's Database
• Search under: Ungen, Ungheny, Ungeny, or Ungheni (not Unghen).
• 254 names pulled by searching “Ungen”
• 478 names pulled by searching “Ungheny” (includes Ungeni, Ungeny, and Ungheni) NOTE: Please be patient – The resulting links are slow to open.
• Holocaust: Wikipedia: “History of Moldova,”- explains the deportations, persecutions, executions, etc. of Jews living in Bessarabia, occurring during WWII.
• The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944, by Radu Ioanid, 2008, 380 pages
• JewishGen-Bessarabia SIG - includes many links to relevant information about the Holocaust and Bessarabian Jews.
• Soviet Extraordinary Commission – Town Index - documentation of what happened during the Holocaust in every Russian locality occupied by the Nazis. Handwritten in Russian.
• See microfilm reel 18 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
• For more detail, see “Ungheny Rayon” in this list https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ExtraComInventory.html