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Starodinskii, Odesskoe Getto, p. 35; and Ehrenburg, p. 98.
Tataranu, “Tifosul exantematic in Transnistria,” April 1942, Nikolaev Archives, 2178-1-424, pp. 4-5.
(Hereafter: Tataranu report).
Velcescu to Alexianu, Odessa Archive, 2242-1-1487, pp. 132-132b.
Tataranu report, p. 4.
Affidavit <strong>of</strong> Vidrascu, June 17, 1950, copy in USHMM, RG 25004M, reel 30; Bogopolski’s testimony.
She testified that temperatures dropped to –40˚C (–40˚F) during <strong>the</strong> deportations.
V. Ludusanu, “Trenul-Dric” (Hearse), Curierul Israelit 9 (November 12, 1944). (Hereafter: Trenul-
Dric.)
<strong>Report</strong> by Apostolescu with letter to Polichron, January 18, 1942, Odessa Archives, 2242-1-1486, pp.
10-11.
Ibid., p. 11.
Trenul-Dric.
Ibid.
Ehrenburg, citing a witness, p. 100.
Commander <strong>of</strong> Wehrmacht Liaison Transnistria Headquarters to Headquarters <strong>of</strong> Romanian Third
Army in Tiraspol, March 20, 1942, Special Archives in Moscow, 492-1-5, p. 262.
Ancel, Documents, vol. 5: no. 129, p. 222.
<strong>Report</strong> re: December 15, 1941, to January 15, 1942, by gendarmerie headquarters in Transnistria,
ibid., no. 133a, p. 216.
Ehrenburg, p. 99.
Ehrenburg, p. 98.
Figures from <strong>the</strong> 1943 census <strong>of</strong> ethnic Germans, cited in Meir Buchsweiler, The Ethnic Germans in
<strong>the</strong> Ukraine toward <strong>the</strong> Second World War (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Diaspora Research Institute, Society
for Jewish Historical Research, 1980), pp. 345-348. This research, toge<strong>the</strong>r with documentation
uncovered following <strong>the</strong> opening <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> archives in Russia and <strong>the</strong> Ukraine, has helped to provide a more
complete picture <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> extermination <strong>of</strong> Odessa Jewry in Berezovka.
K. Stumpp, “Verzeichnis der deutschen Siedlungen in Gebiet Odessa (mit Karte)” (Survey <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>
German settlements in <strong>the</strong> Odessa county [with map]), in Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland
(Homeland book <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Germans from Russia), 1956, pp. 181-193. Identification <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> German villages
is problematic, since <strong>the</strong> Soviet regime renamed some as part <strong>of</strong> Russification, while <strong>the</strong> Nazis—and, to a
certain extent, <strong>the</strong> Romanian occupation authorities—used <strong>the</strong> German place names predating <strong>the</strong>
revolution <strong>of</strong> 1917.
See Buchsweiler, Ethnic Germans.
Testimony <strong>of</strong> Malca Barbalata <strong>of</strong> Bolgrad, recorded in Nahariya, April 3, 1967, YVA, PKR/V, pp.
1263-1265.
Buchsweiler, Ethnic Germans, p. 267.
Liaison Headquarters in Tiraspol to Transnistrian government, April 3, 1942, ibid., 2242-1-1086, p.
64.
Heinrich Himmler, “Erfassung der deutschen Volkszugehörigen in der Gebieten der europäischen
Sowietunion” (The census <strong>of</strong> German nationals in <strong>the</strong> European regions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union), July 11,
1941, Nuremberg Documents, NO-4274.
Buchsweiler, Ethnic Germans, p. 274.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 274.
List <strong>of</strong> German villages in Berezovka, complied by <strong>the</strong> prefecture, early 1942, Odessa Archives, 2242-