Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (1988) 187-232
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews Persecutions 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
The first murder of Jews by Romanian troops took place in June 1940 when the latter withdrew from the provinces of Bukovina and Bessarabia (ceded to the USSR). Antonescu decided to eradicate the Jewish population of these provinces upon their re-annexation in July 1941 by Romanian and German armies. The Gendarmerie and the Pretoriat were chosen to carry out special orders for deportation and murder of Jews. The general population knew of an order permitting attacks on the Jews in the first 24 hours of the occupation; in rural areas peasant bands attacked their Jewish neighbors. There followed mass shootings of Jews in towns by Romanian and German units, incited by propaganda presenting the Jews as traitors. Rural areas were "cleansed" by the Gendarmerie, assisted by reserve soldiers, pre-military youth, and volunteers. The Romanian massacre of Jews was disorganized and brutal, accompanied by rapes and looting. Estimates that 150-160,000 Jews died in these territories during July-August 1941. A similar number were sent to camps and later to Transnistria.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים" יט (תשמט) 143-180
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