Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

town. Grigore Petrovici had ev ery one call him “In spec tor”, eventhough he only held the rank of dep uty po lice com mis sar. /.../I know that Grigore Guta Petrovici, a mem ber of the 1st Mo bileDe tach ment, worked to gether with Ma jor Gheorghe Balotescu inIasi dur ing the time of the po grom. Petrovici and Balotescu them -selves claimed that they had closely co op er ated in ex e cut ing or -ders re ceived in Iasi and Kishinev.I def i nitely know that Col o nel loan Lissievici, who first be cameDep uty Com mander, and then Com mander of the First Mo bileDe tach ment of the SSI, di rectly com manded all the spies andcoun ter-in tel li gence of fi cers, in other words, ev ery one op er at ingat the front or be hind it. That is how I know that the lead ers of theIasi Res i dency, Gheorghe Balotescu and Ma jor Emil Tulbure , aswell as mem bers of their unit, were directly an swer able to Col o -nel loan Lissievici. I know for sure that these two of fi cers tookpart in the Iasi po grom with their units, which were as sem bledfrom Iron Guard el e ments; Ma jor Gh . Balotescu told me this.These two of fi cers and their Iron Guard units laid the ground workfor the po grom, worked out the de tails of its plan, and then di -rectly par tic i pated in the po grom, to gether with other sol diers andci vil ians in Iasi.ID. Saracu Traian BorcescuPub lic Per se cu tor m.p.Lieu ten ant-Col o nel m.p.***8.Min utes of the Con fron ta tionJuly 7, 1945, 17.00 hrsGen eral Leoveanu Emanoil stated the fol low ing: On June 29,1941, the then Min is ter of the In te rior sum moned me, and told methat the Iasi po lice had com mit ted se ri ous crimes. They hadlooted and or ga nized a po grom against the Jew ish cit i zens; hestated that Gen eral Antonescu had or dered me to leave for Iasiim me di ately, and find out who was re spon si ble. I im me di atelytrav eled to Iasi. I ar rived on July 1, 1941, and set to work at once.121