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Commander of Rumanian Death Camp Where Thousands of Jews Killed Arrested in Bucharest

September 30, 1946
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Rumanian police today announced the arrest of Major Ion Stefanescu, commander of the death camp near the town of Vapniarca where 5,000 Rumanian Jews died in 1941 from starvation and typhus. Transports of Jews who filled the camp in 1942 were killed and paralyzed by poisoned food. Stefanescu hid for two years in Transylvania.

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