Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

An Outline of the Suffering ofRomanian JewsSeptember 6, 1940 - August 23, 1944I. Murders and MassacresOn June 29-30, 1941, at the Cen tral Po lice Station, in streets, and inhouses the po lice along with Ro ma nian and German sol diers killed severalthou sand Jews in Iasi . 3Of those who sur vived the blood bath, 4,400 weredi rected to a con cen tra tion camp in Wallachia on board two trains. Theven ti la tion holes of each cat tle wagon were sealed, and 150-180 peoplewere pushed inside. Carbide had been left inside the wagons. Dur ing thejour ney two-thirds of the evac u ees died as a re sult of in hal ing the poi son -ous va por. The bru tal torture of the pre vi ous day cou pled with a lack ofwa ter had de creased their phys i cal resistance.In Podul Iloaiei 1,194 bodies were unloaded from the first train after adistance of 20 kms .., covered in 12 hours. 4From the second train in Tirgu Frumos (40 kms ..) 650, in Mircesti (85kms ..) 327, in Sabaoan (95 kms ..) 172, in Roman (110 kms ..) 53, inInotesti (370 kms ..) 40 dead bodies 5 , and in the last station inCalarasi-Ialomita (563 kms ..) 25 dead bodies, 69 dying and 1,011 personswho were still alive were unloaded. 6 Of the latter, 128 died at the camp inCalaras . 7 213 The ex act fig ure has not been es tab lished. Based on the an -nounce ments of a min is ter (I. Hudila )—the first to visit Iasi af terthe ar mi stice—of the Ro ma nian gov ern ment which came into be -ing af ter 23 Au gust 1944, it is clear that the com bined num ber ofvic tims of the Iasi po grom and the death trains is more than12,000.