Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Czernowitz (Chernovtsy, Cernauti) was the district center of the Chernovtsy Oblast and former capital of the Bukovina province. On October 11, by order of District Governor Corneliu Calotescu, all the Jews of Czernowitz—more than 50,000—were confined to an area of several side-streets, and representatives of the Romanian National Bank confiscated their belongings and property. The deportation of the Jews of Czernowitz to Transnistria began the next day. By 15 November, some 28,000 Jews had been deported.
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
“On the night of October 14-15, the situation on the western front deteriorated,” a Red Army document states. “The German-Fascist forces pitted large forces of tanks and mobile infantry against our forces and penetrated our defenses in one sector.” Two entire Soviet armies, with more than 650,000 soldiers, were neutralized in the first two weeks of October. Stalin ordered government offices and some enterprises in the capital to evacuate, although he remained there to command the defense. German patrols came
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
A mass deportation from Austria to Lodz�5,000 Jews from Austria and a similar number of Gypsies from the Burgenland area�began in the middle of October 1941. Afterwards, another 5,000 Jews were banished to the Lodz Ghetto and 3,000 to the Baltics.
