During WWII, more than one million Jews from the former Soviet Union, including the recently annexed territories of Eastern Poland, the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and northern Bukovina, were evacuated by the Soviet authorities or managed to escape on their own into the Soviet interior before German troops marched into their towns and villages.

A significant group of evacuees, including many Jewish families, arrived in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan) in 1941-1942.

In 2004-2006, a group of researchers of the Central Asia Research Project, selected and digitized registration cards of Jewish evacuees and refugees available at the Central State Archives of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.  A database was compiled consisting of the names of 152,000 Jewish evacuees, along with the digital images of their registration cards.

Extracted from this database is a list of more than 100 refugees from Leova sorted by the list that the refugee registered on and their individual number on that list.