The Holocaust - Under the Antonescu Government. Questions and answers

„I am a survivor of the deportations to Transnistria.

From a total of over 1,800 Jews deported in August 1941 from Hertza, the village I was born and grew up in, only 25% survived the deportation. The others died of starvation, frostbite, typhus and typhoid fever, gunshot wounds, and the ill-will of their fellow humans. The totalitarianism of the Antonescu Government in Romania was followed shortly after the end of World War II by the totalitarianism of the communist regime.

The deportations, Transnistria, the pogroms-events that were an integral part of history-were not even mentioned in the history books. "Whatever is not known didn't exist", was the all encompassing principle applied time and time again...”