The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941−1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12726758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Solonari (0000-0002-0639-7091, University of Central Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 358-360 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust and Genocide Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7937 • E-ISSN: 8756-6583 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hgs/dcw040 |
| OpenAlex | W2517483334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This volume treats the history of the Jewish ghetto in Kishinev (Chişinău, capital of today's Republic of Moldova) from July 1941 to April 1942. Established by the Romanian authorities on German advice and following the example of German-created ghettos elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe, the Kishinev ghetto housed at one time more than ten thousand Jews—more women, children, and elderly people than able-bodied men. Shapiro makes the story part of the Holocaust, since the ghetto was conceived as preliminary to the inmates’ deportation “to the East,” and indeed was emptied in successive deportations between October 1941 and June 1942. Even earlier, the Romanians massacred as many as one thousand inmates during two mass shootings justified as “reprisals” for inmates’ transgressions. In the ghetto, Jews suffered privation, overwork, malnourishment, and a lack of medical care. In Transnistria—a part of southern Ukraine transformed into a dumping ground for “undesirables”—the deportees were severely abused. On the way, gendarmes and policemen shot those who could not walk. Conditions in Transnistrian camps and ghettos were so poor that only a small portion of those deported from Kishinev survived to the region's liberation by the Red Army. In the end, Romanian “treatment” of Kishinev Jews differed little from that in other places in Nazi-dominated Eastern Europe
Ancient history · Archaeology · Criminology · Deportation · Economic history · Ethnology · German · Immigration · Judaism · Nazi concentration camps · Nazism · Political science · Romanian · Sociology · The Holocaust · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |