Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

From among the starving, exhausted Jewish marching columns, whichwandered hither and thither under the command of the NorthernBessarabian authorities, many thousands were shot dead or drowned. Inone such marching column, consisting of 25,000, which had been takenacross the Dnyester to the Ukraine, and then back to Bessarabia, 4,000died in three weeks.A group consisting of 300 Jews, escorted by a sergeant and two gendarmesfrom Volcinet , was either shot into the water of the Dnyester , or drownedwhile crossing the river. 14In the concentration camps of Bessarabia, where Jews were rounded upbefore deportation ( Secureni , Edineti , Vertujeni , Marculesti ), severalhundred died daily. 15Along the roads where deportees were escorted, several thousands died ofexhaustion, illness, hunger and the cold weather. (September 1941 was thetime of the camps in Bessarabia, October and November for those inBucovina , Dorohoi county and the ghetto of Kishinev). In one of themarching columns, which had started from Edineti on the night ofOctober 15 in a village called Corbu , 860 Jews froze to death, among themthere were many women holding their children in their arms.12 The re port by tele phone of the Cen tral Of fice of the Gen dar meriein Kishinev (Col o nel T. Meculescu ) dated Au gust 13, 1941 to theHigh est Mil i tary Tri bu nal.13 Ibid., and also the of fi cial re port com piled by SS Untersturm- fuh -rer Hein rich Frolich and Cap tain Vetu Gheorghe loan of the Gen -dar merie Le gion of Chilia-Noua on Au gust 9, 1941, whichin di cates that the for mer for warded the or der for ex e cu tion to thelat ter on be half of Gen eral Antonescu , and the lat ter ex e cuted theor der. Cap tain Vetu was later found guilty by the Court of Jus tice,not, how ever, be cause he had killed so many in no cent peo ple,but for com mit ting petty crimes while car ry ing out his duties: hestole watches and rings.25