The Shoah (1939–1945)
Mărculești transit camp
été 1941·Mărculești
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The town, emptied of its own Jewish inhabitants shot in the first days, becomes the main gathering camp for Jews of Bessarabia before their crossing of the Dniestr: tens of thousands of people transit through barracks without water or roof, and hunger, typhus and executions cause a great number of deaths.
The town of Mărculești, emptied of its own Jewish inhabitants who were shot in the first days, becomes the main gathering camp for the Jews of Bessarabia before their forced crossing of the Dniester. Tens of thousands of people pass through it, penned in roofless barracks without water, stripped of their belongings at the entrance. Hunger, typhus, and executions claim a very great number of lives there even before the convoys depart.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Moldavie
Jean Ancel, *Transnistria* ; Radu Ioanid, *La Roumanie et la Shoah*.