Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

ment; Lieu ten ant-Col o nel Constantin Ionescu Micandru , Head of De -part ment “G”, which provided con tact with the Ger mans; his inseparableshadow, the Ger man Ma jor Herman von Stransky ; Lieu ten ant-Col o nelProca Alexandru , Head of the Anti-Sab o tage Department; Director Flo rinBecescu-Georgescu , Head of the Coun ter-Es pi o nage Department. In ad -di tion to these peo ple, mem bers of the de tach ment in cluded the brav estagents and group lead ers: Gheorghe Critescu (brother of Eugen Critescu ),Grigore Guta Petrovici, Teodor Rosianu (alias Relu Critescu ) and manymore.The de tach ment set off in cars to wards Bessarabia on June 18, 1941. Uponleav ing, Director Flo rin Becescu-Georgescu took the pre-pre pared chartsand files indicating the geo graph ical lo ca tion of the Jewish pop u la tion. Af -ter rest ing for short periods in Maia, near Snagov , and Vartejcoiu , nearOdobesti, and somewhat longer pe ri ods in Vadu , near Piatra Neamt andSoprocesti, near Ro man, the de tach ment arrived in Iasi .Then they con tin ued on their way leaving blood and ruins in their wake inKishinew , Tighina , Tiraspol, Odessa, and all the way to Rostow .Through out the journey the de tach ment kept in constant con tact with thevar i ous agen cies and res i den cies, es pe cially the one in Iasi . The heads of theresidencies in Iasi , Majors Emil Tulbure and Gheorghe Balotescu , re ceivedin struc tions and com mands tell ing them when to start work. It is not outof the question that the di rec tives were for warded by Col o nel Lisievici, orLieu ten ant-Col o nel Proca , the head of the Anti-Sab o tage De part ment. Itis certain that plans and or ders con cern ing the job were passed on to themby Lieu ten ant-Col o nel Ionescu Micandru and Ma jor Stransky , so thatthey could su per vise events more closely.Ma jor Stransky and Lieu ten ant-Col o nel Ionescu Micandru hurried to Iasion June 26, spent a few hours at the Headquarters of 14th Di vi sion, andthen left the town in the evening dis ap pear ing mys te ri ously, probablyhead ing for the vil lage of Bucium , where the SSI Rep re sen ta tives were ac -com mo dated.The Representatives were now able to re port to their su pe ri ors that theyhad recruited, trained and armed about thirty or forty Iron Guards, whowere staying in a flat rented by a law yer in Florilor St. in the Pacurari quar -88