Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania
Jewish victims of death trains, commemorated in Calarasi
A commemorative event in memory of the Jews killed in 1941 in the "death train" took place on Thursday in (southeast) Calarasi, in the presence of some survivors of the pogrom in (northeast) Iasi, who recalled the ordeal they went through in those times.
FCER'S Vainer: Representatives of Jewish community, grateful to Romanian state for establishing Holocaust Day
Aurel Vainer, the President of Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania (FCER), brought to mind that 9 October 1941 marks the beginning of the deportation of the Jews in Romania to Transnistria.