• Region: Black Sea
• Area: Bessarabia
• District: Akkerman
• Rayon:
• Founded: 1815
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
• Location: C-8 Stumpp Map
• Longitute and Latitude:
• Parish: Alt-Posttal
• German Name: Wittenberg/ Malojarosavetz I
• Russian Name:
• Ukrainian Name:

Remarks:
Founded in 1815 by families from Poland where their ancestors had settled between 1796 and 1806. They had originally immigrated from Württemberg. 

Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 117)
The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (pp. 560-563)
Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (Chapter 40, copy available at the GRHS)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp.65-67), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 320-322.
Wittenberg, Bessarabien: Die Geschichte eines Dorfes in der Steppe by Paul Rath & Klara Bollinger. Published by Heimatsmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien e.V., 1987. Village history, pgs. 13-228; Village genealogy, pgs. 229-544.

Census Records:

Church Records:

Village History - 1848

Wittenberg Timeline

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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