Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

Deportations in the Spring andAutumn of 1942The Chronological Order of EventsJune 7, 1942 - October 13, 1942June 7, 1942Due to initiatives so far unknown, an order of General CorneliuCalotescu , Governor of Bucovina , and under the direct control of MajorStere Marinescu , Head of Cabinet, a new group of Jews was deported fromamong those who were still in Chernovitz . It seems that this plan wasaimed at the deportation of those 4,000 Jews who, during the deportationof November, 1941 had been selected to for permission to stay in the townfrom Dr. Traian Popovici, ex-town mayor who had fallen out of favor bythen. /.../Some of the lists of names were com piled in April at the Gov er nor’s office,and two days before the de por ta tion, the county branch of the Ro ma nianCen tral Jew ish Office was asked to ur gently provide the list of the Jewswho re mained in the town un der the Popovici permit.The Jewish or ga ni za tions (both in Bu cha rest and in Chernovitz ) re ceivedthis information in time, but all of their attempts to pre vent this di sas terwere in vain. Leading Ro ma nian au thor i ties, intoxicated by their il lu sorymil i tary suc cesses, re mained deaf through out the sum mer of 1942. Theclerks were only pay ing at ten tion and holding out their palms to make aprofit from the misfortune of the Jews. Stere Marinescu , for ex am ple, re -ceived 500,000 lei as monthly al low ance from the Jews before the de por ta -tion. This, how ever, did not pre vent him from ac com plish ing thede por ta tion with cru elty and bar bar ity.Under his order, patrols of policemen and soldiers joined byrepresentatives of the Town Hall, in the middle of the night, went to theJewish homes selected according to the prepared lists, and collected201