| You are right that the city of Chernovitz was not considered part of Romania, except for twenty years prior to World War II. The Metropolitan of Transylvania was unable to help the Jews of Moldavia (the eastern part of Romania.) My grandparents came from Podul Iloaei (very close to Iasi,) and I heard terrible stories of how Romanians lined Jewish residents of Iasi along the streets during 1941, and shot them. Tens of thousands of Jews were massacred. They did not have to be deported. Still, Romanian Jews were probably more fortunate than our sisters and brothers who lived in nearby countries, as Jews from the Old Romania were not sent to the gas chambers. |
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