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Jews Ask Rumanian Minister to Open Trial of Perpetrators of Jassy Massacre

February 2, 1947
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A delegation of Jewish leaders today called on General Mihail Lascar, Rumanian Minister of War, and demanded an immediate opening of the trial of army men responsible for the Jassy massacre in 1941.

Expressing disappointment at the repeated postponoments of the trial, the Jewish leaders said that two years after the opening of an inquiry into the pogrom, the perpetrators were still at large. Gen. Lascar said that the indictment is being revised and promised that the trial would begin before the highest military court in Bucharest next month. Agitation to open the trial has been carried out throughout the country and has been raised in parliament, the Jewish press and at public meetings.

A group of five hundred Rumanian Jews being repatriated from the Soviet Union have arrived at Siret, on the Soviet Rumanian frontier in Bucovina. Representatives of the Rumanian Government and the Joint Distribution Committee are going to Siret to organize aid for the repatriates.

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