The Shoah (1939–1945)
Expulsion of Jews from Orhei
été 1941·Orhei
Toll
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District capital of central Bessarabia, Orhei sees its Jews arrested, stripped of their possessions and concentrated before being transported in stages toward the left bank of the Dniester.
Orhei, the administrative center of central Bessarabia, sees its community plundered and driven out as soon as the Romanian troops return. The inhabitants are gathered together, marched on foot toward the province's transit camps, and those who cannot keep up are shot along the roadsides.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Moldavie
Sources
Matatias Carp, Cartea Neagră ; Encyclopaedia Judaica.