About the Creator

This site is brought to you by Diana Victoria Braghis, a student at Pomona College originally from the Republic of Moldova. Through her summer research project, Diana sought to make the topic of Bessarabian deportations available to an English-speaking audience, since most of the available resources online are in Romanian.

She would also like to extend her deepest gratitude to the contributors to this site, mainly Pey-Yi Chu and Octavian Țâcu. As the coordinator of the project, Pomona College history professor Chu helped guide the process of creation and ensure historical accuracy. Țâcu, a historian from Moldova, helped Diana throughout her research efforts, offering resources and insights for this website. Diana is grateful to both of these contributors.

Further Research:

If you want to more know about Soviet-era deportations, check out this non-exhaustive list of English resources:

Dyukov, Aleksandr, and Olesya Orlenko. Divided Eastern Europe : Borders and Population Transfer, 1938-1947. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Elena Postică. “Memoirs - Important Resource of Reconstructing the Ordeal of Deportations.” Viii, no. 2, 2014, pp. 289–298. INSERT-MISSING-

Gheorghe Cazacu. “Some Concers Regarding the Mass Deportations of Bessarabians to the Ussr between 1940-1941.” I, no. 2, 2019, pp. 69–74.

Hirsch, Marianne, et al. “Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust.” The Cernăuţi Ghetto, the Deportations, and the Decent Mayor, New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 57–75.

Kaganovitch, Albert. “Estimating the Number of Jewish Refugees, Deportees, and Draftees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in the Non-Occupied Soviet Territories.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, 2013, pp. 464–482.

Pro Bessarabia and Bucovina... : The Rights of the Romanian Nation to Bessarabia and Bucovina... : The Deportations of the Romanian Population from the "Moldavian Republic by the Ussr. Pro Basarabia-Bucovina Association, 1958.

SHAPIRO, PAUL A. “Cleansing the Terrain in Bessarabia: In Towns, Transit Camps and Ghettos, Deportations.” Holocaust. Study & Research / Holocaust. Studii Şi Cercetări, vol. 13, no. 1, 2021.

If you happen to be a Romanian speaker, consult this bibliography: https://enciclopedia.asm.md/wp-content/uploads/Deportări_Bibliografie_.pdf for a list of primary and secondary sources.