In Moldova, Jewish Life Is Fueled by Descendants of Those Who Fled — And New Refugees From Ukraine

In Moldova, Jewish Life Is Fueled by Descendants of Those Who Fled — And New Refugees From Ukraine

Librarian Olga Sivak holds up a newspaper from 1913, Bessarabian Life, at the Jewish Museum of Moldova in Chișinău. (Photo credit: Larry Luxner via JTA) Larry Luxner | JTA For most of her life, Peruvian-born Yvette Merzbacher wondered where her four paternal great-grandparents were buried. All she knew was that her grandparents came from Bessarabia, and that her grandmother, Liza Bronstein, had emigrated to Lima, Peru, in 1932 with her two older…