Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

Com mander of the 6th Moun tain Ri fle Reg i ment:Col o nel Maties Ermil m.p.***14.From the tes ti mony of Col o nel Mihai Isacescu , in ter ro gated byGen eral Emanoil Ionescu , spe cially ap pointed ex am in ing judge,on June 18, 1947.At the time of the Bessarabian mil i tary ex pe di tion I was the com -mander of the re con nais sance squad ron of the 6th Ri fle Reg i -ment, as its cap tain. (...) When we cap tured the Sculeni-Rusibridge-head, I heard that in Stanca Rosnoveanu , Cap tain Stihi,Sub-Lieu ten ant Mihailescu and pri vate Ion Epure had killed theJews who had es caped from Sculeni-Rusi, and that pri vate Epurehad mu ti lated them prior to ex e cu tion. /..../I was in formed by word of mouth by fel low-sol diers, Cap tainIoachim and oth ers, that the above-men tioned peo ple had donethis pri mar ily to rob the Jews of the gold they had on them. Thespoils were prob a bly shared with Cap tain Stihi and Col o nelMaties . In ref er ence to this, a con ver sa tion about a watch be -tween Cap tain Stihi’s wife and Col o nel Maties co mes to mind. /.../It is not true that in Marculesti the cit i zens first put up the whiteflag and then at tacked Cap tain Otel’s squad ron by join ing theRus sian troops. The truth is that a Rus sian unit, approx. the sizeof a squad ron, at tacked Cap tain Otel’s squad ron from the sidecaus ing the sol diers to re treat, then the Rus sians with drew andtook with them Cap tain Otel, who was wounded in the leg. Astory was sub se quently con cocted to cover up the stu pid ity of asquad ron be ing dis patched, with nei ther backup nor re con nais -sance units, to wards the North-East ern Heights of Floresti on theVesdova-Alexen line, where they would have had to con structbat tle trenches be fore the ar rival of the reg i ment.Gen eral Ionescu Emanoil m.pCol o nel M. Isacescu ,spe cially ap pointed ex am in ing judge m.p.***128