Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,2 (2004) 537-551
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Pogroms
Abstract:
Describes the marginalization of Romanian Jews, deprived of rights until after the First World War and again, under German pressure, in the late 1930s. Violent protests against the ceding of Romanian territory to the USSR under the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact were accompanied by pogroms against the Jews, who were identified with the Russians. In June 1941 Iaşi was a staging area for the joint German-Romanian attack on the USSR. On Antonescu's orders, Jews and communists, suspected of spying, were kept under strict control. Panic in the civilian population due to Soviet bombing was deflected to violence against Jews. On 29 June, hundreds of Jews were arrested and taken to police headquarters, where Romanian and German soldiers beat them and then shot them. The survivors, with additional Jews driven from their homes, were crowded into freight cars, which travelled for days in intense heat with almost no food or water. More than half the Jews on these trains died. Altogether, 20% of Iasi's Jews were exterminated. Concludes that this was not a pogrom in the usual sense of a spontaneous popular uprising. It was planned by the government and carried out under its direction, probably under Nazi inspiration.
DOI:
10.1515/ASCH.2004.537
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