What events are scheduled
Chisinau City Hall approved, on this occasion, a program of actions and cultural-artistic events, including the launch of a thematic page jewshistory.md.
On April 20:
At 16:00, at the History Museum of the City of Chisinau, the launch of the exhibition “In days of mourning. 120 years since the Jewish Pogrom in Chisinau”; at 18:00 – the “Requiem” concert, at the Palace of the Republic.
On April 21
At 10:00 an event is scheduled in memory of the victims of the Jewish Pogrom in Chisinau, which will take place in Alunelul Park, at the Pogrom Victims Memorial; at 12:30 p.m. – the opening of the “Tel Aviv” underground passage, after the modernization works (intersection, bd. Dacia and bd. Traian); for 1:00 p.m., a guided tour with the title “History of the Jewish Pogrom in Chisinau in 1903” is scheduled, and at 3:00 p.m. – the presentation of the documentary film “The Tragedy of Chisinau. The Jewish pogrom – 1903”, which will take place at the Radisson Blu Leogrand Hotel.
The tragedy in Chisinau. The Jewish pogrom – 1903
The authors of the film recounted the events of April 1903, referring to the interrogation protocols of witnesses, Pogrom participants and victims, when for three days in Chisinau, 49 people died, 500 people were injured, about a third of the city buildings were damaged.
The events of 120 years ago were analyzed in the film by Moldovan historians Roman Rabinovici and Leonid Mosionjnik, as well as by Stanford University professor, author of the book Pogrom: “Chisinau and the Bend of History”, Steven Zipperstein.
After the premiere, the documentary film “Tragedia de la Chisinau. Jewish Pogrom – 1903” will also be available on the website https://jewshistory.md/. The film was made with the financial support of Chisinau City Hall and the assistance of the Jewish Community from the Republic of Moldova.
Top three articles about the Jewish pogrom, recommended by AGORA
1) THE HISTORY PORTION | The Jews of Bessarabia: The minority that went from 11% of the population to just 0.1% in the last two centuries
Although it would seem hard to believe, almost 200 years ago, at one point the Jews came to represent almost half of the population of Chisinau, at that time, the capital of the Bessarabia governorate, also representing an important part of the population in the region. Manufacturers, merchants, usurers, shopkeepers, intellectuals or simple workers, their influence on the history of our country is a significant one, representing a particularly painful part when it comes to the 1940s.
2) From a quarter of a million to less than 1%. The fate of the Jews of Moldova, after the crime of the Holocaust (PHOTO)
For 100 years, they came to represent not even 1% of the entire population of Moldova. The Jews, who in the 19th century numbered almost a quarter of a million people on the territory of Moldova, had a tragic fate. First by pogroms, then by the fear of the Gulag, and then – by the Holocaust. The International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust, January 27, was also marked in Chisinau, where, first, most Jewish families from Moldova lived, and then there were most ghettos.
3) The Chisinau pogrom of 1903, seen through the eyes of a governor and a poet
“The sun shone, the acacia blossomed, the murderer stabbed”, are part of the lines of the poem City of Slaughter, written by the Jewish poet Haim Nahman Bialik in reference to the anti-Jewish pogrom of April 6-8, 1903. Triggered after the Russian-language newspaper ” Bessarabeț” reported that in February of the same year a Christian child was allegedly killed in Dubăsari during a Jewish religious ceremony, this program disturbed international public opinion, being considered to be “the most horrible anti-Jewish massacre until Buchenwald and Auschwitz”.
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