Iași pogrom
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The Iaşi pogrom of June 27 1941 was one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history, launched by governmental forces in the Romanian city of Iaşi against its Jewish population, resulting in the brutal mass-murder of 13,266 Jews.
Background
Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, and echoed its anti-Semitic policies. During 1941 and 1942, thirty-two laws, thirty-one decree-laws, and seventeen government resolutions, all sharply anti-Semitic, were published in the Official Gazette (Monitorul Oficial). Romania also joined Germany in the invasion of the Soviet Union. On June 25, 1941, rumors started that Soviet parachutists had landed outside of Iasi, and the police began to search Jewish homes, blaming them for the (non-existent) Soviet attack.
ROMANIA AND THE NAZI-SOVIET WAR, 1941-1944
Led by Antonescu, Romania participated fully in the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Within days of the invasion, Romanian authorities staged a pogrom against the Jewish population in the city of Iasi, the regional capital of Moldavia. Romanian police officials shot hundreds of Jews in the courtyard of police headquarters. Hundreds more were killed on the streets or in their homes. In all, at least 4,000 Jews were murdered in Iasi during the pogrom. Thousands more were arrested, packed into freight cars, and deported by train to Calarasi and Podul Iloaei, towns located southwest of Iasi. Many of these deportees died en route from starvation or dehydration.
Source: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005472
Pogrom and death train
Soon, Romanian soldiers, police, and local citizens started massacring Jews. They also arrested 5,000 of them, forcing them to the train station, and shooting those who did not move quickly, and robbing them of all of their posessions. Over 100 people were stuffed into each car, and over 2500 Jews died of thirst, starvation, and suffocation aboard two trains that for eight days travelled back and forth across the countryside.
The total number of victims of the Iaşi Pogrom is unknown, but figures are over 13,266.