Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

that the pi lots of the Soviet planes were also Jews from Iasi. All this cre ateda state of collective lu nacy, and almost the entire pop u la tion of Iasi wastrans formed into a frightened mob, which un think ingly con sid ered theJews its greatest threat.11.00 hrs, June 26, 1941The sec ond So viet blitz. Targets bombed included the Head quar ters of the14th Di vi sion, the Cen tral Tele phone Ex change and the Saint SpiridonHos pi tal. Many dead, of whom 38 were Jew ish.June 26, 1941In Iasi’s evening news pa per ( Prut ), Gen eral Gheorghe Stavrescu , the Com -mander of the 14th Infantry Di vi sion, the highest-ranking lo cal mil i taryof fi cer, issues a warning, in which, among other things, he asks peo ple tohelp the au thor i ties catch “our enemies and spread ers of alarm ing ru mors”,and threatens that, “those in the ser vice of the enemy will be hacked topieces”. The news pa per was dated June 27, but tak ing into con sid er ationthe usual sys tem of dating news pa pers, it probably appeared on June 26.......Jew ish cit i zens Isoub Cojocaru , Leon Schachter and Wolf Herscu (the lat -ter seriously injured dur ing the morn ing’s Soviet bomb attack), who livenext to the build ing where the bat ter ies of the 13th Dorobanti Regimentwere ac com mo dated, are ac cused of giv ing sig nals from their flats to theSo viet air force, and es corted to the headquarters of the regiment byLance-Ser geant Mircea Manoliu . Once there they are in ter ro gated by twocap tains—well-dis posed peo ple—who give an or der to let them go free,be cause they found the arrested men entirely in no cent. Since the head -quarters are in the district called Copou , in which Jews are forbidden tomove, the of fi cers order Lance-Ser geant Manoliu to ac com pany them, fortheir safety, un til they are outside the danger zone. Mircea Manoliu , how -ever, does not take them back along the short route by which they came,in stead, he takes a de tour through the nar row, empty streets head ing to -wards the shoot ing ground in Calcaina val ley. When no one is watch ing,the beast shoots the peo ple he is sup posed to be guard ing. Cojocaru dies92