On June 29, 1941 Germans, Romanian police and local civilians, on express order from Ion Antonescu carried out orders--At the signal of a false air raid siren the killing on the streets of Iasi began with approximately 15,000 men, women and children murdered
The Shoah, Iași, Romania
Marianne Hirsch writes that there were certain "peculiarities associated with the Romanian displacement and genocide of the Jews" resulting in only recent recognition of Transnistria, the region where nearly three hundred thousand Jews and Roma perished during a period of three years (20) during the Shoah.
Ruth Glasberg Gold is a witness and was a child survivor of Romanian brutality during the Shoah: https://www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-seminar-romania-special-guest-speaker-ruth-glasberg-gold-impressed-talk-about-transnistiria
On June 28, 2022 the Elie Weisel National Insitute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the municipality of Iași launched a website concerning the Iași Pogrom