Dear Arthur, Of course there were organized mass killings, they were just different from the German-run death camps and have thus not been sufficiently recognized. Besides the examples of brutal killings you mention, let us not forget Vapniarka where inmates were knowingly poisoned with a diet made of peas known to be lethal to humans, a diet the guards did not partake of. The Romanian Holocaust followed different patterns than what has come to be recognized as "The Holocaust" internationally and so there is still a great deal of work to be done to gain this recognition and set the historical record straight.
Marianne
On Feb 3, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Arthur von Czernowitz wrote:
> Dear Mimi,
> Yes there were organizer mass killings:
> The beginning July 1941 more than 2,000 Jews were killed in the streets in Czernowitz by Romanian troops, including the chief Rabbi Mark.
> From Bukovina, thousands were taken into fields and forests, ordered to dig enormous mass graves, and shot. Those who dumped the bodies into the graves were shot after their job was done; they were barely covered with dirt. At times the earth would move from people who were buried while still alive. The following numbers of Jews murdered by shooting speak for themselves "In Domanovka --18,000; in Bogdanovka -- 48,000; in Acmechetka -- 5,000; in Vertujeni -- 23,000, there is more. It is just not recognized, our office is fighting with Yad Veshem.
> There is a true story that some peasants bought the living Jews for 1,500-2,000 lei, and then had them shot by the soldiers so that they could take off their clothes.
>
> August 2010, in a place called Budi, I found the mass grave where my mother was buried.
>
> We did not suffer more than the Jews at Auschwitz, our people died just the same.
>
> Calling Transnitria Holocaust Lite is very upsetting.
>
> Arthur
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