The first ghetto for Jews in Rumania has been established in the city of Kiahinov, Bessarabia, regained from the Soviets, according to a report published in the Aachoner Zeitung.
The Nazi newspaper states that all Jews who remained in Kishirev after the retreat of the Soviet army are now forced to live in a special section of the city segregated as a ghetto.
Statistics compiled by central Jewish organizations in Bucharest reveal that damages totalling more than 366,000,000 lei, approximately $1,750,000, ware sustained by 1,500 Jewish families who were victims of the Iron Guard pogrom in Rumania last January.
The data discloses that 90 percent of the pogrom victims ware Jews born in Rumania. More than two-thirds of the damage was suffered by stores, shops and other places of business. Damages to homes and dwelling places account for close to 100,000,000 lei, or about 27 percent of the total, while the injuring to synagogues and Jewish community buildings amounted to an additional 22,000,000 lei. About 4,600 individuals comprise the 1,500 families involved. Mora than twenty-five percent of these families are those of Jewish war veterans who served Rumania in war-time.
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