Prelude to Mass Murder: The Pogrom in Iasi, Romania, June 29, 1941 and Thereafter מכתבים יד ושם - קובץ מחקרים

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and the whitewashing and concealment by all of Romania’s post-war regimes

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Prelude to Mass Murder: The Pogrom in Iasi, Romania, June 29, 1941 and Thereafter מכתבים יד ושם - קובץ מחקריםJune 29, 1941. The beginning of the murder of about 15,000 Jews in Iai, one third of the citys Jews, in riots instigated by the fascist Romanian regime of Ion Antonescu. This was but a prelude to the genocide of the Jews of Romania. The thousands of Jews who remained alive in the city were crowded into two death trains and deported, with most dying of hunger and thirst. This pogrom was hushed up for about 50 years, until Jean Ancel tracked down the