The Chapter for this village is Bessarabia & Dobrudscha Chapter

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• Region: Black Sea
• Area: Bessarabia
• District: Bender
• Rayon:
• Founded: 1895
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
• Location: C-7 Stumpp Map
• Longitute and Latitude:
• Parish: Mathildendorf
• German Name: Helenowka
• Russian Name:
• Ukrainian Name:
• AKA: Ileanca

Remarks
Original settlers came from Arzis, Katzbach, Lichtental, Borodino, Neufall, Teplitz, Wittenberg, and Grossliebental [Odessa]

Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 120)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern (page 147)

Church Records

War Records

• EWZ Records
• DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
• DAI Miscellaneous Reports
• Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
• Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative

Supplemental Information

• Bessarabia Head of Household Index
• Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
• Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
• Christian Fiess Indices

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