Alternate names: Călăraşi, KALARASH (Bessarabia). ShtetLink. 1906 photos of town after 1905 pogrom. [March 2009]

Jewish Cemetery: photos. Contact: S. Feofilaktova (373-244) 2-20-18, (+373-22) 34-77-40. Located on a hill rising behind buildings on the main street in the center of town at Donich str. with a broken metal fence and no gate, gravestones range from 1,000 to 5,000.  60.000 sq. m. area. Holocaust memorial: Golberg family restored the monument to victims of the Holocaust shot in the village Onishkany in 1941. In 1993, part of the cemetery was maintained. Many gravestones were in good condition with some surrounded by metal fences. Other parts are overgrown with broken and leaning tombstones. Gravestones date from the 19th century. photo [March 2009]

REFERENCE: Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale (Rizzoli International Publications, 2000), photographer David Goberman. Two gravestones from the old section of the Jewish cemetery  (pp. 148-150): One gravestone from the 1850s is "the daughter of (illegible)" with a lion catching a butterfly. A second gravestone dated between1850 and 1900, that of "a young man Eliahu Eleazar", has Cohan blessing.

Municipal Cemetery: Jewish section where most Jewish burials take place currently. [March 2009]