...I was beaten here too, and in the evening, as soon as it got dark, we were all put in a car and taken back to the forest: we were again lined up two by two and shot quickly.

I don't know how I even realized that I was still alive this time again."

On January 23, 15 of the Jews seized three days earlier are taken to the Communal Slaughterhouse on the Dambovita. They are hung alive on cattle hooks. The Legionnaires wrote “Kosher meat” on the bodies.

The Jewish neighborhood in Union Square is not spared, Vasile Adamache Str., Popa Nan Str. - the area where my grandmother lived, 6 years old at the time.

The Vacaresti and Dudesti neighborhoods – then heavily Jewish, are sacked – synagogues are desecrated and burned, shops looted, homes vandalized.

The latter brings tensions between Antonescu and the Legionnaires to a boil. On January 20, 1941 the Legionaries rebel. A confrontation w. the army follows.

The Legionary press writes "If it comes to shooting, let's not target each other; We have, you know, who to shoot at!"

The brutal fascist legionary movement is characterized by fanatical extreme violence, terror, beatings, looting & a strategy of intimidation designed to ultimately rid Romania of Jews. In addition to antisemitic violence, they commit numerous prominent political assassinations.

In September 1940, during a political crisis, Marshal Ion Antonescu and the Legionary Movement come to power, forming the National Legionary State. Rights of Jews are severely curtailed.

🕯️The Bucharest Pogrom

Between January 21-23, 1941, 125 Jews were killed by the fascist Legionary Movement in Bucharest.

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