Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

July 8, 1941Col o nel Meculescu , Com mander of the Gendarmerie In spec tor ate inKishinev, or ders—among other things—the iden ti fi ca tion and ar rest ev -ery Jew in the vil lages of Bessarabia, ir re spec tive of their sex and age.July 10, 1941The Jewish march ing column of Banila ar rives to Storojinet . Their num -ber is swol len up by Jews from the vil lages they passed through ( Iadova ,Berhomet , Panca , Cires ). In Storojinet a camp is cre ated in the syn a gogue,where 2,500 peo ple are crowded. The guards tor ture their victims all thetime, es pe cially Lieu ten ant-Col o nel Alexandrescu , Commander of theDraft (Re cruiting) Centre, who beats Jews with his own hands, and rousesthe cit i zens for loot ing and murder. He also forces peo ple to work hard, al -though they have noth ing else to eat but grass be cause he for bids them toleave the camp to get some food. /.../July 18, 1941The High est Mil i tary Judge of the army goes for a supervising tour in Balticounty. In this county, where 31,965 Jews had been in di cated by the lat estna tional census, and where their num ber must have been in creased by nat -u ral pop u la tion growth and the mi gra tions of 1940, at the time of the con -trol, there are not more than 3,481 Jews in three camps. Sup pos edly, thereare 5,000 more of them in the county.July 20, 1941The Jews from Storojinet , who had been locked into the school and the or -phan age, are collected into a ghetto con sist ing of two streets. The housesthere had been com pletely robbed. Strict mea sures are in tro duced in theghetto. Jews are obliged to wear a yel low star and there is a cur few at 1900hours. They can provide them selves with food only after 10.00 hours. /.../181