* 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev ( Bessarabia ) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.

Historically, the English language name for the city, " Kishinev ", was based on the modified Russian one because it entered the English language via Russian at the time Chișinău was part of the Russian Empire ( e. g. Kishinev pogrom ).

A large anti-Semitic riot took place in the town on 6 – 7 April 1903, which would later be known as the Kishinev pogrom.

Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom ( 1881 ), Kishinev pogrom ( 1903 ), Kiev Pogrom ( 1905 ) and the Białystok pogrom ( 1906 ).

In response to the Kishinev pogrom in 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay met with B ' nai B ' rith's executive committee in Washington, D. C. B ' nai B ' rith President Simon Wolf presented the draft of a petition to be sent to the Russian government protesting the lack of opposition to the massacre.

Following the Kishinev pogrom in the Russian Empire, Rocker led a demonstration in solidarity with the victims, the largest ever gathering of Jews in London.

After the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, Jabotinsky joined the Zionist movement, where he soon became known as a powerful speaker and an influential leader.

Violence against the Jews in the Kishinev pogrom in 1903 was continued after the 1905 revolution by the activities of the Black Hundreds.

In the wake of the Kishinev pogrom, Adler went back briefly to Eastern Europe in summer 1903, where he tried to convince various family members to come to America.

Adler in his memoir gives an account that when he went back in Europe in 1903 in the wake of the Kishinev ( Chişinău ) pogrom, in an unsuccessful attempt to convince some of his family to join him in the United States, he encountered Rosenberg as a street beggar and unsuccessfully attempted to give him money.

A pogrom was initiated in the town of Kishinev in the Russian province of Bessarabia, resulting in 51 people being killed and over 500 injured, see the Kishinev pogrom.

February 16, 1903: Kishinev pogrom.

In 1903, soon after the Kishinev pogrom, an additional group from Bessarabia was organized.

She immigrated to the United States with her family in 1903, following a pogrom in Kishinev.

Krushevan was reported as being one of initiators of the Kishinev pogrom in April 1903.

The party collapsed in 1903 following the Kishinev pogrom.

In 1917, he returned to Kishinev, became a member of the Bolshevik Party and took active part in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Bessarabia.

Chișinău (; historically also known as Kishinev, from ) is the capital and largest city of Moldova.

Before the cession, the Kostin family relocated to Kishinev, Moldavian ASSR ( present day the capital city of Moldova, Chişinău ).

Milestone was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Imperial Russia ( now Chişinău ), Moldova to a family of Jewish heritage.

Friedman was born Wolf Friedman (, ), in Kishinev, Bessarabia, the son of Frederick Friedman, a Jew from Bucharest who worked as a translator and linguist for the Russian Postal Service, and the daughter of a well-to-do wine merchant.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Kishinev, Bessarabia

Samuel Zemurray ( nicknamed " Sam the Banana Man "; born January 18, 1877 in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, present-day Chişinău, Moldova ; died November 30, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) was a U. S. businessman who made his fortune in the banana trade.

He was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire ( present-day Chişinău, Moldova ,) to a poor Jewish family that emigrated to America when he was 14.

A year later, when his native Bessarabia was annexed by the Soviet Union, he and most of his former troupe settled in Kishinev, where Shternberg became artistic director of the Yiddish-language Moldovan State Jewish Theater and staged, among other works, M. Daniel's Zyamke Kopatsh and Sholom-Aleichem's Motl Peysi Dem Khazns (" Motl Peysi, the cantor's son ") with Sidi Tal in the boys ' roles.

* 1903: Chişinău ( then known as Kishinev ), in Russian Bessarabia had a Jewish population of 50, 000, or 46 %, out of a total of approximately 110, 000.

In 1903, a young Christian Russian boy, Mikhail Ribalenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubossary ( Dubăsari in Romanian ), about 25 miles north-east of Kishinev ; the town is situated on the left bank of the river Dniester, and formally was not a part of Bessarabia.

Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir (; August 3, 1896, Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire – June 11, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union ) was the Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II.

The Jassy – Kishinev Offensive, launched on 20 August 1944, resulted in a quick and decisive Soviet breakthrough, collapsing the German-Romanian front in the region.

* ground attack against Kishinev airfield, destroyed a Ju. 87 on the ground

It is quite likely Schiff also saw this loan as a means of avenging, on behalf of the Jewish people, the anti-Semitic actions of the Tsarist regime, specifically the then-recent pogroms in Kishinev.

The Soviets, aware that the enemy would anticipate this, engaged in a maskirovka campaign to catch the German armoured forces off guard by creating a crisis in Belorussia that would force the Germans to move their powerful Panzer forces, fresh from their victory in the First Jassy – Kishinev Offensive in April – June 1944, to the central front to support Army Group Centre.

In 1903, the theater was the site of a fundraiser by the Chinese community for Jewish victims of a massacre in Kishinev.

It was completely destroyed during the Jassy – Kishinev Offensive of August 1944 and was rebuilt after the war.

After the war, he returned to Kishinev and resumed his work at the Moldovan State Jewish Theater, where he staged his play Di Balade fun der Esesovke Brunhilde un ir hunt (" The ballad of the SS soldier Brunhilde and her dog ") and published poetry in the almanac Heymland ( 1948 ).

There were two Jewish periodical publications, both published in Kishinev ( Chişinău ).

His father, Samuil Osipovich Ephrussi, was a chemical engineer ; his grandfather, Joseph Ephrusi ( Efrusi ), was the founder of a banking dynasty in Kishinev.

; Capital: Kishinev

The period of the most significant redevelopment of the city extended from 1971, when the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union adopted a decision " On the measures for further development of the city of Kishinev ", which secured more than one billion rubles in investment from the state budget, which continued until the independence of Moldova in 1991.

In Eastern Europe, Joseph Rabinowitz established a Hebrew Christian mission and congregation called " Israelites of the New Covenant " in Kishinev, Ukraine in 1884.

In 1971, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a decision " About the measures for further development of Kishinev city " that secured more than one billion rubles of investment from the USSR budget Subsequent decisions directed enormous wealth and brought highly qualified specialists from all over the USSR to develop the Soviet republic.