The military commission which is investigating the pogrom at Jassy in 1941 in which thousands of Rumanian Jews were slaughtered, has completed its on-the-spot inquiry and is now sifting the facts in the subsequent murder of 80 percent of the survivors of the Jassy incident.
The Commission established that some 5,000 men, women and children were packed into two freight trains and kept there for six days during which more than 4,000 perished from suffocation and lack of food, water and medical care. The commission is now tracing the route of the death trains, and numerous bodies have been exhumed from shallow common graves where they were buried after being hurled off the trains.
In Mircesti, Moldavia, 468 bodies have been buried in a common mausoleum, bearing the simple inscription: “Here lie 468 Jews massacred June 22, 1941.” At the town of Roman four bodies were recently uncovered and reinterred in a ceremony attended by the entire Jewish community, local officials and the commander of the local garrison.
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