Foreword
[of the print book]

At the present, more than at any other time, it is necessary to remember the tragic events of the Second World War, among them the crimes committed against the Jews by the Antonescu regime.

In many polls performed by some television stations, it has been found that a high percent of the interviewed did not know who marshal Antonescu was and the situation of the Jews during his government.

Further it has to be considered that some politicians and historians, as well as other persons who appear on the screens of some TV stations, alter the historical reality of this period, inoculating the dangerous poison of extremism and anti-semitism in the rank of the youth and less informed televiewers.

Attention has to be paid to the fact that some of these commentators entitle themselves as defenders against the so called accusations brought to the Romanian people for the crimes committed during the war.

We want to state that we, the survivors of these events, have never charged and associated the Romanian people with these incompatible deeds of a human being.

For these crimes, the Antonescu government, the central and local authorities as well as some extremist and déclassé elements, who participated at this genocide, are the only to be blamed.

Of course, a natural question has to be put. If the Romanian people is not accused why is it necessary to defend it and against whom?

We believe that it is extremely dangerous to present as models to the new generations some leaders who elaborated and applied the policy of genocide against the Jews.

The publishing of numerous books and articles which falsify the historic truth and deny happenings during the Second World War has the same negative effect.

For this reason we considered as proper to support the appearance of this booklet.

Marcu Rozen the author, member of the Romanian Society of Statistics, is known by his books "The demographic involution of the Jews in Romania between the years 1940-2000", published in 1998 (printed also in Israel, in Hebrew), "The Jews from the Dorohoi district during the Second World War", published in 2000 and "60 years from the deportation of the Romanian Jews to Transnistria", published in 2001.

By using a rich bibliography as well as his personal experience (being the sole survivor of his family of five persons deported to Transnistria), the author succeeds to retain the essential and to present in a concise and accessible style a big amount of data and information concerning the complex phenomenon, known in Europe as Holocaust, which includes also the extermination of a part of the Jews living under the authority of the Antonescu government.

Behind the barren figures of the tables, which are attached to this book, there are numerous destroyed human destinies. Each statement is based on verifiable data. In his work the author lets the facts speak for themselves and when they accuse, the truth has to be disclosed. It is if the written documents saved in archives would raise their voice on behalf of to the death convicted, only because they were born Jews.

We publish this book, which opens grievous pages, in view to enable to the concerned reader the knowledge of the truth of this dark period and to react properly to attempts of forging history and of propagating extremist and anti-semitic theses.

The value of this book consists in the fact that the used data are based on official documents of the Romanian state, such as census, government statements and so on.

The Board of the Association