Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

ship of Bucovina ) trans ported the Jews there, the lower Ro ma nian bod ies(county head of fices, po lice head quar ters, Gendarmerie Le gions) handedthem over, with out any ob jec tion, at the request of the Germans, who inturn ex ter mi nated all of them in the frame work of cam paigns—last ing un -til the spring of 1944—or ga nized ac cord ing to na tional-so cial ist meth od -ology.There was one other part of Transnistria where Ger man supremacy wasable to pre vail un hin dered as a re sult of the same inferiority complex: thiswas Berezovca county in the prov ince of Mostovoi- Vasilonovo-Rastadt ,where an important General Command of an SS unit was op er at ing. TheRomanian au thor i ties con sid ered this place to be the most ap pro pri ate forthe sur vi vors of Odessa and the de port ees from the Old Kingdom (his tor i -cal Romania) and Transylvania. It can not be sup posed on this occasion ei -ther that there existed an ear lier Ro ma nian-Ger man agree ment. How ever,events oc curred within the same criminal frame work. On Jan u ary 7, theGov er nor of Transnistria ordered the internment of Jews fromOdessa—approx. 20,000 people—to the ghetto in Slobodtka . Later, inJan u ary and Feb ru ary, the Ro ma nian Gendarmerie evac u ated them to theprov ince of Mostovoi. Starting in March, the SS troops con tin u ously tookthem over and ex e cuted them in groups of a few hun dred in the frame workof ac tions last ing un til au tumn.Similarily , the Ro ma nian Leader of the State, Ion Antonescu , at the end ofJuly 1942 ordered the de por ta tion of a group of Jews con sist ing of a fewhun dred from the Old King dom and Transylvania to Transnistria ; all ofthose who had asked for an en try visa from the Soviet Em bassy in 1940. Inearly Sep tem ber the Min is try of the In te rior sent them to the prov ince ofMostovoi , where they were im me di ately re quested, re ceived and ex e cutedby SS troops.Events took a totally dif fer ent turn dur ing the sec ond Ger man attempt inthe au tumn of 1942, which was aimed at the ap pli ca tion of the na -tional-so cial ist plan in Ro ma nia. The Hitlerites had taken for granted theex ter mi na tion of all Jews under the au thor ity of the Ro ma nian gov ern -ment.Nazi pres sure, which had its effect on offices be hind pad ded doors, andlater man i fested itself ar ro gantly and cyn i cally in the for eign and German150