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A secret order determining the hours of forced labor for Jews in the city of Bacau - Romania. October, 1943

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A secret instruction concerning increasing the hours of forced labor of the Jews in District 105 in the Loco area of the city of Baku - Romania. The message states that in accordance with the instructions of Mr. Set. M. Starting on October 12, 1943, the Jews will work 10 hours a day, for 14 consecutive days to make up for the time off they did not work during the four days of the holiday. The working hours on those days will be between 6 and 12, and between 14:00 and 18:00. The district managers were tasked with overseeing the implementation of the instruction given as an order by Commander Stephan from Office 5, who signed here. Baku, Romania, 10.13.1943. Romanian. A rare and important historical find!

The decrees on the Jews of Baku in Romania during World War II began in 1941. Romanian anti-Semitism stemmed from diverse reasons, religious, national, economic, political, racist and even out of a desire to behave according to the fashion dictated by Nazi Germany. In June, the evacuation of the Jews from the towns and villages around Bacau to the city itself was arranged, which led to great overcrowding. The city police announced on July 4, 1941 that within 48 hours at the most, all Jews were required to wear a yellow patch on their clothes. In August 1941, restrictions on movement after 9:00 p.m. were imposed on the Jews in Bacau. In December 1941, the Bacau concentration camp for Jews was established and the Jews from Bacau were massively sent to forced labor outside the city, especially to those run by the CFR (Romanian Railway). Many even reached Bessarabia and Transnistria. The Bacau community managed to organize a canteen for the poor that offered daily meals for 1,000 people. Most of the helpers were members of the families of those sent to forced labor outside the city. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered or died of stagnation, hunger, disease and forced labor in the territories controlled by Romania. The Historians Committee, established by the Romanian government, decided that it could not name the number of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust of Romanian Jews under Romanian rule, but indicated that their number ranged between 280,000 and 380,000.

[1] page. 21x15 cm. Good condition.

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75. A secret order determining the hours of forced labor for Jews in the city of Bacau - Romania. October, 1943