Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

wa ter brought in buck ets. How ever, the wa ter was not for them to drink, itwas poured on the tracks be fore the very eyes of the parched pas sen gers. 22III. PlunderingFrom the first days of the fas cist gov ern ment un til the fi nal hours beforethe col lapse of the re gime, the Jewish cit i zens of Romania were robbed un -re mit tingly on an un imag in able scale. Many peo ple took part in these rob -beries from those of the low est strata to the highest, in clud ing theau thor i ties.1. Robberies Committed by Members of the Iron GuardMem bers of the Iron Guard committed large-scale and bru tal loot ing. Actsof loot ing were carried out by in di vid u als and or ga nized bands with thesupport and en cour age ment of au thor i ties whose duty in ev ery civilizedcoun try is to safeguard the property and lives of its cit i zens. The mainmethods of robbery employed by the Iron Guard were the fol low ing:(a) Iron Guard Aid: Through ter ror and tor ture, this supposedly char i ta bleIron Guard in sti tu tion, robbed Jews of cash and goods worth hun dreds ofmil lions of lei. Such in ci dents were wide spread in Piatra Neamt , Buhusi ,Targu-Neamt , Iasi. In Bu cha rest the Lord Mayor’s Of fice of the third“Albastru ” district was es pe cially re nowned for this ac tiv ity. Sim i lar actsalso oc curred in Ploiesti , Targovite .The in sti tu tion, founded at the peak of the ter ror, had lit tle dif fi culty inachiev ing its aim. The intimidated and broken Jews suc cumbed eas ily tothe fright en ing clubs and re volv ers pointed at them. All Iron Guard so cial22 Re port No.22088 of June 25, 1941 is sued by the Po lice Head -quar ters in Bacau , a town which was granted mu nic i pal au thor ity,jus ti fies the use of po lice force by re port ing that a woman fromDaraban was made to get off the train be cause she went mad onthe way to the con cen tra tion camp.31