Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

17.Iasi Central Po lice Sta tion Reg is tered onJuly 2Ref. No.99, June 30,1941 un der No.23857; file No.569/941.To the In spec tor ates of the Po lice and Siguranta /..../On 28th at 22.00 hrs, our or ga ni za tions in formed us that in cer -tain dis tricts au to matic weapon fire was com ing from ev eryhouse. /.../All the sol diers march ing through these dis tricts and ev ery Gen -darme pa trol which had been dis patched dur ing the day to ev erydis trict of the town, as well as a num ber of off-duty po lice of fi cers,started to search the houses from which, ac cord ing to them,shots had been fired. Every Jew was taken away; most werefound in the air-raid shel ters.On this oc ca sion many of them were shot dead, and many wererobbed. /.../The chaos grew greater ev ery sec ond, and since the shoot ingshad taken place in the vi cin ity of sev eral im por tant in sti tu tions,there were sus pi cions that some one wanted to oc cupy them;there fore we strength ened the guards around the cen tral tele -phone ex change, the Cen tral Po lice Sta tion and the rail way Sta -tion: in spite of these mea sures, we were un able to cap ture anyof the marks men.I must add that there were no fa tal i ties, and only one po lice menwas slightly hurt.When the sun came up, a Ro ma nian army corps, which had beenmarch ing along Las car Catargiu Street, came un der fire, as didan other march ing along Carol Street. /... /There can be no doubt that an anti-Se mitic at mo sphere quicklyes tab lished it self. This led to Jews be ing pulled out of air-raidshel ters, houses and shops. They were taken with out pre text tothe Cen tral Po lice Sta tion. On 29th at 09.00 hrs there were al -ready 1,800 per sons there, women, chil dren and men of all ages.The hos tile at mo sphere fu eled abuse and loot ing, es pe ciallywhen Ger man sol diers killed a woman in broad daylight in a pub -133