Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

night, the women were barbarically searched - the search also involvedtheir genitalia. All of them were subsequently released together with thechildren. Naturally, all their valuables were confiscated. /.../In the meantime, Jews were prohibited from going out into the street.Milk sellers and greengrocers were also forbidden to enter Jewish houses.July 7, 1941In Edineti, the Jews killed the day before were gathered and buried in threemass graves. Then, the grave diggers, who were all Jewish, were alsoexecuted.The Jews were prohibited from going to the market, or having any contactwith the Christian population.July 7, 1941Fol low ing in the foot steps of German troops oc cu py ing Targu Parlit ( Balticounty), a few sol diers of the 5th Ro ma nian In fan try Regiment also creptinto the town. Their first act was to seek and loot Jew ish homes. In thehouse of Chidale Felder (22 Main Street), they found 10 Jews in the cel lar;the sol diers de manded money and valu ables from them. After the lootinghad ended, the sol diers shot all ten on the spot; four died in stantly, twosome time later. It seems that the re main ing four also died. Af ter the Ro ma -nian sol diers, one of whom was later identified by two of fi cers, had left, thelocal residents set out to loot the houses of the other Jews.Note: The Command Cen ter of the 11th Ger man Army in formed the Ro -ma nian High Command of the massacre and loot ing. An in quiry waslaunched, which was conducted by the Balti Gen dar merie Le gion on Au -gust 7: it concluded that other Jews had also been killed, but by Germansol diers. The inquiry, nat u rally, was carried out in such a way that no onewas found guilty, and no one was pun ished.170