Soviets liberate Transnistria

In March 1944, Transnistria was liberated by the Red Army. On 30 March, Czernowitz was liberated. During the same period, a Jewish committee from Bucharest succeeded in repatriating some 2,500 Jews who had been deported to Transnistria. By the liberation, approximately 90,000 of the 150,000 deportees had perished, this in addition to the 185,000 Ukrainian Jews who were murdered in Transnistria by the Romanian and German armies.