Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

approx. 1,000 people, men, women and children, and did not allow themto bring more with them than what they could carry on their backs. /..../Among the people collected there were a number of Polish citizens whoheld Chilean passport. Also 66 in-patients from the lunatic asylum wereforced to leave, along with the hospital staff, although the latter hadresidence permits signed by the Governor himself. /..../Di rectly after the de por ta tion, the homes of Jews re mained empty. Signsprepared in ad vance were stuck onto the doors which said that the goodsin side had be came the property of Town Hall. Later they were dividedamong those Romanians who laid claim to them; they were given to thosehy e nas from all so cial and in tel lec tual strata, who flooded the town in thehope of getting rich. The fur ni ture re mained in their hands for a year,when un der for mal sales contracts it be came their property for ever.June 14, 1942The second transportation of Jews was collected and sent to Transnistria inthe same barbaric manner as the first, with looting and torture. Thoseliving at the old people’s home (with people over the age of 80), as well ashospital patients wearing only hospital gowns were taken out of their bedswere also included in this transportation. The doctor on duty protestedagainst the taking of patients1 and was subsequently arrested.June 14, 1942Under the order of the Governor of Bucovina , 450 Jews are deported fromDorohoi. Most are men, breadwinners, who had been in labor service inNovember 1941, when the first deportation separated them from theirwives and children. When they returned from labor service, they foundtheir flats sealed, their families taken away and their property confiscated.They did not even receive permission to remain in the town. If some ofthem still managed to sneak into the city, patrols surrounded the streets,collected them and took them directly to the railway station.202