Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

June 28, 1942A new Black Sunday for the Jews of Chernovitz . Another Jewish group ofabout 2,000 is deported. The people are collected at night and at dawnunder the same barbaric circumstances as on the two previous Sundays(June 7 and 14). They were taken to the sports grounds in Makabi wherethey were the targets of mockery all day. The operations were once againdirected by Major Stere Marinescu . His helpers were Police CommanderTraian Ionescu and Manea Bocioaga , who was the co-ordinating officer ofJewish issues in the governorship. Before that time, the latter person hadbeen the financial executive of the governorship. On this occasion, peoplewho had been given permission to stay by the governor were officiallydeprived of it. /..../In the evening, before the train departed, Major Marinescu checked thefreight-cars. Since he realized that there was still room in them, at about19.00 hrs he gave an order to collect Jews from a few streets of the Rosadistrict. The freight-cars were still not completely full, therefore Marinescugave another order in the middle of the night, according to which, all Jewsliving in Pitei Street were to be collected. There were people among themwho had been given permission to stay only a few hours previously by theselection committee. /.../August 8, 1942Since Ger man troops arrived in the coun try, the German em bassy at -tempted for the first time to ac tively in flu ence the Ro ma nian gov ern mentand the gen eral pub lic in or der to ex ter mi nate the Ro ma nian Jewish pop u -la tion. Ev ery thing so far had taken place ex clu sively on Ro ma nian ini tia -tives, and was car ried out ex clu sively by Ro ma nian au thor i ties. It is nat u ralthat the pursuits and crimes they ordered or allowed to hap pen, weremostly the pas sive consequences of the influential Nazi men tal ity. How -ever, Romania was not forced to do any thing by the Ger mans, ex cept forthe demolishing tra di tional Jewish com mu ni ties and sub sti tut ing themwith the Jewish Office. There were no rat i fied ob li ga tions to pre scribe theper se cu tion and ex e cu tion of Jews. The occurrences were the con se quencesof the fact that Ro ma nia had joined the Berlin-Rome Axis.203