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4.9.2021. 20:41
Rumunjska
 

Romania commemorates Jewish victims of 1941 pogrom

Romania, which has long denied taking part in the Holocaust, paid tribute to thousands of Jews killed during a 1941 pogrom in the northeastern city of Iasi.

An unprecedented meeting of parliament was convened in the presence of the massacre’s last survivors.
“We, as a nation, must openly admit that our past was not always glorious,” said Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu, recalling the “unimaginable suffering, cruelty and savagery” inflicted on the orders of pro-Nazi marshal Ion Antonescu.
Some 15,000 victims, almost a third of Iasi’s Jewish population, were killed in what historians call “one of the most documented massacres of the Second World War.”
On June 29, 1941, thousands of Jews were taken to the Iasi police headquarters while being beaten and humiliated by Romanian police and civilians.
Between 7,000-8,000 people were crammed without water into two “death trains” comprised of sealed, overheated freight cars where most died of suffocation.
Around one hundred pictures of the massacre remain, along with about 600 portraits of victims.

Rumunjska, koja dugo niječe sudjelovanje u holokaustu, odala je počast tisućama Židova ubijenih tijekom pogroma 1941. u sjeveroistočnom gradu Iasi. Saziv parlamenta bez presedana sazvan je u nazočnosti posljednjih preživjelih iz masakra.

"Mi kao nacija moramo otvoreno priznati da naša prošlost nije uvijek bila slavna", rekao je rumunjski premijer Florin Citu, prisjećajući se "nezamislive patnje, okrutnosti i divljaštva" nanesene po naredbi pronacističkog maršala Iona Antonescua.

Oko 15.000 žrtava, gotovo trećina  židovskog stanovništva, ubijeno je u onome što povjesničari nazivaju "jednim od najdokumentiranijih masakra u Drugom svjetskom ratu".

29. lipnja 1941. tisuće Židova odvedeno je u sjedište policije u Iasiju, dok su ih rumunjska policija i civili tukli i ponižavali. Između 7.000 i 8.000 ljudi bilo je nagurano bez vode u dva "vlaka smrti" sastavljena od zapečaćenih, pregrijanih teretnih vagona gdje je većina umrla od gušenja.

Ostalo je stotinjak slika masakra, zajedno s oko 600 portreta žrtava.

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“We have not completely fulfilled our mission,” lamented Silviu Vexler, president of the Federation of Jewish communities of Romania (FCER)  in reference to “praise for war criminals” by elected officials of the nationalist AUR party who won seats in parliament in December.

Between 280,000 and 380,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews died in the Holocaust in Romania and territories under its control, according to a commission headed by Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel, himself a Romanian-born Jew.

And though the commission’s report was validated by the Romanian government, Antonescu, sentenced to death for war crimes and executed in 1946, remains a hero in the eyes of many Romanians.....