Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

Murders in Odessa and in theCounties of Berezovca and GoltaThe Chronological Order of EventsOctober 16, 1941 - December 1942October 16, 1941Romanian and German troops oc cupy Odessa, from where the Red Armyhad with drawn a few days before. Al though the oc cu pi ers do not meet withany resistance, they murder a great number of cit i zens, mostly Jews.October 22, 1941A time bomb ex plodes in the build ing of the Ro ma nian Head quar ters. Theex plo sion kills 16 of fi cers, 35 sol diers, 9 non-com mis sioned officers, ci vil -ian em ploy ees and Com mander Gl. Glogojeanu himself. Three hourslater, Gl. C. Trestioreanu , Com mander of the 13th In fan try Regiment,who automatically stepped into the place of the Commander of Town, re -ports the fol low ing to the 4th Army: “I have taken measures for the Jewsand communists to be hanged in the public places of Odessa ”.October 23, 1941The so-called re venge ac tions have started. By morn ing there are gal lowsstand ing everywhere, with victims hanging on them. Peo ple are shot deadran domly in every part of the city. At noon, the ex e cu tions stop; so farapprox. 5,000 peo ple have been killed, most of them are Jews.October 23, 1941Ion Antonescu or ders the ex e cu tion of 200 com mu nists for each mur deredRomanian or Ger man of fi cer, and 100 for ordinary sol diers. He also or dersthe tak ing of com mu nist and Jewish hostages...195