MOLDOVA
(Formerly called Moldavia; Bessarabia and Moldavia)
description: g05 11/8 26-27; yb04 67, 72
history: yb04 67-68, 79-80, 90-91, 95
maps: yb10 21; g05 11/8 26-27; yb04 73; g04 2/22 25
sheet-metal craft: g05 11/8 26-27
wells: g05 11/8 26-27
wine: yb04 68, 71; g04 2/22 23-25
Jehovah’s Witnesses
apostasy:
influence of KGB: yb04 115
Assembly Halls: yb04 125-126
assistance from Romania: yb04 76-78
ban (1925-1991): yb04 79-80, 82, 85-87, 123-124, 127
Bethel family: yb04 128-129
Bethel Home:
Chisinau (2000): yb04 81, 128-129
branch office:
Chisinau (2013): yb14 42-43
branch office having oversight:
Romania (1920’s-1930’s): yb04 76-77, 82, 85-86, 88
Romania (1995): yb04 128
Russia (until 1995): yb04 128
circuit assemblies: yb04 81, 120, 123
clergy opposition: yb04 78-79
Poland (1989): yb04 120
Russia (1992): yb04 123
Country Committee: yb04 131
courts: yb02 181
victories: yb10 19-20
division:
attempt by authorities to divide: yb04 81, 107, 110-112, 115-116
early witnessing: yb04 69-71, 74-76; g01 4/22 13
first annual report: yb96 38-39
growth: g05 4/22 23; yb04 69, 75, 80-82, 85, 99, 106, 128, 130; w97 1/1 15
Kingdom Halls: yb04 80, 124-127
legal matters:
efforts to legalize work (1925-1937): yb04 85-87
legal recognition (1994): yb04 81, 127; yb95 254
meetings: yb04 74-75, 82
modern history: yb04 67-133
persecution: yb04 79, 82-85, 88-107, 110-118, 120-123
exile to Siberia (1949, 1951): w13 9/1 8; g05 4/22 20-21, 23; g05 12/22 13-14; yb04 81, 95-99, 102-103, 107; g04 10/22 12; yb02 169-170
for neutrality: g05 4/22 20-22; g05 12/22 12-13
persons:
Anischevici, Nicolae: yb04 93-94
Cislinschii, Cazimir: yb04 76, 88
Ciucaş, Vasile: yb04 76
Cojocaru, Valentina: yb04 108-110
Cordon, Alexandra: yb04 100-102
Cravciuc, Anatolie: yb04 131
Gheorghiţa, Mihailina: yb04 121-123
Gherman, Maria: yb04 94-95
Gherman, Vasile: yb04 92-93
Goreacioc, Parfin: yb04 83-84
Gorobeţ, Gheorghe: yb04 111-112, 128
Groza, Ilie: yb04 74
Groza, Ioana: yb04 74-76, 78-79
Groza, Tudor: yb04 75
Grozescu, David: yb04 131
Kovacs, Tiberiu: yb04 131
Lungu, Vladimir: yb04 77
Mârza, Valeriu: yb04 130-131
Matzura, Guenther and Rosaria: yb04 128
Mikitkov, Ivan: g05 4/22 19-23; yb04 77-78, 98-99
Pădureţ, Vasile: yb04 84-85
Palamarciuc, Parfin: yb04 91-92
Pântea, Anton: yb04 91
Platon, Efrem: g05 12/22 12-15
Porchulyan, Georgiy: lfs article 1
Rabinowitch, Joseph: yb04 70
Rusu, Ion and Iulia: yb04 128
Sevastian, Lidia: yb04 113-115
Şobe, Constantin: yb04 99, 102-103
Ursoi, Ion Sava: yb04 89-90
Ursoi, Mihai: yb04 117-118
Ursu, Vasile: yb04 104-106
Vacarciuc, George: yb04 83
Voloşanovschi, Nicolai: yb04 103, 107
Zighel, Serghei and Oxana: yb04 132
pioneers: yb04 77-78, 82
special pioneers: yb04 131-132
printing: yb04 119
publications:
Zion’s Watch Tower: yb04 70
relief from Ukraine:
famine (1947): yb02 164
service experiences: w93 1/1 27
atheist teacher helped by schoolboy: yb04 108-110
despairing youth: g00 2/22 32
former Communists: lfs article 1; w05 1/15 9
unassigned territory: yb98 12-13
vice-mayor: yb04 130-131
traveling overseers: yb04 82, 89-90, 123-124
visits by—
Lett, M. S.: yb14 42-43
Lösch, G.: yb04 129
Russell, C. T.: yb04 69-70, 80; jv 507-508
youths:
parental opposition endured: g99 10/22 31