Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

Those in the first three categories were taken to the camp in Vapniarca .Those in the last category were taken to Mostvoi-Berezovca , where theheadquarters of the Gestapo were located. /.../October 5, 1942Major Orasanu , Commander of the Gendarme Legion in Moghilev , trav -eled to Sargorod to personally inform the leaders of the ghetto of the decreehe had issued to transfer 3,300 Jews from the district to Peciora , 1,000from Sargorod , 1,000 from Djurin and 1,000 from Murafa . After longnegotiations, the Major agreed to withdraw his decree, after he receivedwhat he had been bargaining for: a one and a half carat cut diamond ring.October 12, 1942In Moghilev the transportation of the 3,000 Jews to the camp of Peciorabegins. General Iliescu , Inspector of the Gendarmerie of Transnistria ,proposes that the poorest people should be sent, because—in hisopinion—they will perish anyway, and the camp in Peciora was createdexclusively for this reason.The Jewish Committee, along with the Gendarme Legion, arranges for thedeportation to be executed gradually, and only one group of 500 people isto be taken away at a time.The camp was known throughout Transnistria as a “death camp”, (thesewords were even written on a board above the entrance to the camp). Theinhabitants of the ghetto did everything to avoid deportation. They hid incellars and holes under the ground, they escaped to meadows in the rain inorder to hide in cornfields and ditches. Gendarmes searched for them withpolice dogs.Eighty evacuees were packed into each freight-car. The doors and windowswere kept closed for the whole journey, and the weaker ones suffocated.People were removed from the freight-cars in Israilovca , 14 kms fromPeciora . From there, they were taken to the camp on foot; gendarmes beatand tortured them throughout the journey. /.../218