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?ormer Mayor of Jassy Arrested in Bucharest; Will Stand Trial for Massacre of

April 20, 1948
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Constantin Ifrim, former mayor of the Rumanian city of Jassy, has “been arrested here and will stand trial among nearly 100 other peris for responsibility in the Jassy massacre of 1914 in which 14,000 Jews were slaughtered, it was reported today.

Ifrim, who was known to the Jews of Jassy as one of their worst prosecutors, Led his home for Bucharest nearly four years ago in an attempt to escape the revenge If the population of the city. It was at Ifrim’s orders that the centuries-old Jewish cemetery of Jassy was desecrated and criss-crossed with streets paved with streets paved with tombstones.

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