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On the
evening of June 28, Romanian and German soldiers, members of the
Romanian Special Intelligence Service, police, and masses of
residents participated in an assault on the Jews of this town.
Thousands were murdered in their homes and in the streets;
additional thousands were arrested by patrols of Romanian and German
soldiers and taken to police headquarters. In their homes,
Christians posted crosses, icons, and inscriptions such as “Here
live Christians, not Jewboys.” The next day, “Black Sunday,”
Romanian soldiers shot thousands of Jews who had been interned in
the police headquarters yard. The 4,330 survivors, and many Jews who
had been rounded up from all parts of town, were packed into freight
cars and vans; 2,650 of them died of suffocation or thirst, and
others lost their sanity. On August 30, the 980 Jews who survived
the torture were brought back to Iasi. The war-crimes tribunal court
in which Romanian war criminals were prosecuted in 1948 ruled that
more than 10,000 people had been murdered. |
