Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

fi cial data.) However, if we ac cept the fig ure for sur vi vors (50,741) givenby the Min is try of the In te rior, it is clear that 264,900 of the Jewish cit i -zens of Ro ma nia (ex clud ing North ern-Transylvania) are un ac counted for,i.e. 43% of the then Jew ish pop u la tion.It can be said that these figures do not re flect re al ity since those Jews whoes caped at the be gin ning of the war are not counted in them. Even if thisstate ment were true, it would not alter the tragedy of these num bers. But itis not true. Ver ified in for ma tion proves that the fig ure for those who tried2 The re port can be found in the 1943 “ Transnistria ” sec tion of these cret ar chives of the Min is try of the In te rior. It is nei ther signednor dated. It was com piled by the ex-Dep uty Sec re tary of State,Gen eral C. Z. Vasiliu . Its con tents show that it was des tined forthe Pres i dent of the Coun cil of Min is ters in No vem ber 1943.Among other things it con tains this unedited ex tract:“In the frame work of the mea sures of au tumn 1941 aimed atcleans ing Bessarabia and Bucovina , fol low ing the re oc cu pa tionof these ter ri to ries by the Ru ma nian army, the trans fer of Jew ishel e ments to Transnistria for sub se quent ex e cu tion by mil i tary po -lice forces has been or dered. It was only pos si ble to cal cu late thenum ber fol low ing the grad ual re in state ment of Ru ma nian ad min -is tra tive au thor ity, while Ger man troops were in the pro cess ofsur ren der ing the ter ri to ries.Based on data now in our pos ses sion, the num ber of evac u ees in1941 was the fol low ing:From Bessarabia: 55,867From Bucovina : 43,798From Dorohoi Co. and town: 10,368To tal: 110,033Dur ing 1941 and 1942 some of these died of in fec tious dis eases,the re sult of a lack of med i cal care and pre ven ta tive treat ment inter ri to ries close to the front line; ac cord ing to the count carriedout on Sep tem ber 1, 1943 some 50,741 Jews re mained alive, thegreater pro por tion of these was trans ferred to Moghilev , Tulcin18