Ella Romm: 3 books

The author completed a comprehensive research on her Bessarabian Jewish ancestry where over 130 blood relatives were identified. A renowned Hebrew poet Eliyahu Meitus (1892-1977), American scientists Joseph Meites (1913-2005) and Samuel Meites (1921-2003) are the most shining figures in the family tree. The book includes historical facts, memoirs and statistics.

This book is devoted to the Jews of Kishinev who were numerous at the dawn of the 20th century but mostly disappeared in pogroms, wars and immigration waves. You will meet the people killed in the 1905 Kishinev pogrom and some prisoners of the ghetto during the World War II. I am also including the burial listings from the Kishinev Jewish cemetery and, finally, famous people of Kishinev.

My granduncle, Eliyahu Meitus (1892-1978), lived through the first three quarters of the XX century, the turbulent times in the history of the European Jews. His life began in Bessarabia, a distant province of the Russian Empire, and ended in the state of Israel 85 years later. He was a poet and writer, a teacher and translator, a polyglot and Zionist.