From summer 1941 onwards Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of
Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13 000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of
Ia i killed the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by
Romanian armed forces and local people large-scale deportations of Jews to the camps and
ghettos of Transnistria and massacres in and around Odessa. Overall more than 300 000 Jews of
Romanian and Soviet or Ukrainian origin were murdered in Romanian- controlled territories
during the Second World War. In this volume a number of renowned experts shed light on the
events the contexts and the aftermath of this under-researched and lesser-known dimension of
the Holocaust. 75 years on this book gives much-needed impetus to research on the Holocaust in
Romania and Romanian-controlled territories.
