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Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

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Jews are allowed to live only <strong>in</strong> certa<strong>in</strong> places, as signed to them by the Gen -darme Inspectorate. They are reg is tered sep a rately, farms are or ga nized forthem, and they are used for ag ri cul tural la bor, roads and bridge re pairwork, lum ber-jack <strong>in</strong>g and car ry <strong>in</strong>g stones or other materials. The work ersare given daily food cou pons; day-la bor ers 1 RKKS Mark, and skilledwork ers 2 RKK Marks. /.../Those who leave the place assigned to them, are de clared spies, and mil i -tary laws valid dur<strong>in</strong>g war-time are used aga<strong>in</strong>st them.November 20, 1941Colonel E. Brosteanu , Commander of the Gendarme In spec tor ate ofTransnistria , is wor ried that Transnistria is, “fill <strong>in</strong>g up with com mu nistsand Jews”, who might commit hostile acts later. He, there fore, asks forcom mands from the Gendarme Cen tral In spec tor ate, say <strong>in</strong>g: “only the ex -ter mi na tion of crim i nals and fanatic com mu nists will free mank<strong>in</strong>d fromthe threat of communism”.Un der di rec tive No.23, most of the Jews are re moved from their dwell<strong>in</strong>gplaces. In the northern part of the ter ri tory, <strong>in</strong> Moghilev 3,733; <strong>in</strong>Sargorod approx. 2,000; <strong>in</strong> Rabnita 1,467; <strong>in</strong> Tulc<strong>in</strong> 118 (the other 3,005are sent to the camp <strong>in</strong> Peciora ); <strong>in</strong> Spikov , 27 (the other 848 are locked up<strong>in</strong> Rogozna )—these are the re ma<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>g Jews.In the southern part of Transnistria almost all lo cal Jews are <strong>in</strong> terned <strong>in</strong>camps <strong>in</strong> Golta county; <strong>in</strong> Bogdanovca there are 48,000 Jews; <strong>in</strong>Dumanovca , 18,000; <strong>in</strong> Acmicetca , 4,000. In these camps deportees, arede prived of everyth<strong>in</strong>g they own (gold and jew elry were the most soughtaf ter). They were sub jected to the most terrible forms of tor ture; starvationand misery were the most lethal methods.Dur<strong>in</strong>g this time there was an un iden ti fied num ber of Jews <strong>in</strong> Ba1ti (a fewthou sand, perhaps), and <strong>in</strong> Odessa ap prox i mately 30,000. /.../197

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