Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

them were wear ing ex cel lent qual ity clothes, which they could nothave af forded on their sal a ries.In ref er ence to the ques tion of whether I con sider the num ber 254to be the pre cise num ber of dead bod ies bur ied in the Jew ishcem e tery, I must say - and I base my state ment on the an -nounce ment is sued at the time, which men tioned 500 Jew ishcom mu nists, and on what I saw in the yard of the po lice Sta tionand in Alecsandri Al ley—the num ber of dead bod ies ex ceeded500. (...) On Mon day morn ing I was re fused en try to the yard ofthe po lice Sta tion. When the gate was opened, I saw a pile ofcorpses, they were piled on top of one an other like logs. Therewas not enough room to drive a car into the yard. Blood ran downas far as the gate, and when I en tered, it com pletely cov ered myshoes. - I must also add that I also saw the fence (...),and be -cause there was an enor mous num ber of corpses there, I askeda po lice man stand ing by it, who spoke with Bessarabian ac cent,how come there were so many bod ies. He re plied: we brought alot of them here, too, to this place, and shot them dead. /.../D. Saracu public pros e cu tor m.p. Vlad Marievici m.p.***21.Ro ma nia. Min is try of In te rior.Se cretIasi Central Po lice Sta tion. Con fi den tial135 CS/ Au gust 23, 1941.To the Of fice of the High est Mil i tary Tri bu nalWe hereby trans fer the en closed re port of Au gust 1941 con cern -ing the at mo sphere of the cit i zens in the sphere of au thor ity of theCen tral Po lice Sta tion.Lieu ten ant-Col o nelChirilovici m.p.Po lice Su per in ten dent of IasiAnghel Z. Anghel m.p.Leader of Siguaranta/.../138