Iaşi Jassy, judeţului Iaşi, Moldova, România

Latitude 47°09′25″N
Longitude 27°35′25″E
City Iaşi Jassy
County judeţului Iaşi
State/ Province Moldova
Country România

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Iaşi
Jassy
Jászvásár
Яссы Yassy
יאס
Yas
Ιάσιο
Iàsio
Yaş
Яси
Yasy

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By mid-19th century,with Russian and Galician Jews immigrating into Moldava, Iaşi was at least one-third Jewish.
In 1855, Iaşi was the home of the first-ever Yiddish-language newspaper, Korot Haitim.
In 1876, Iaşi held the first-ever professional Yiddish theater performance.

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From June 21 to July 6, 1941, over 13,266 people, one third of the Jewish population, were massacred in the Iaşi pogrom of 1941, or during the aftermath, and thousands more were obliged to leave their hometowns and transported to Southern Romania.
Iaşi's Jewish population was accused of aiding the Bolsheviks, and rumors were promoted among the general population that the Jews were anti-Romanian.
On June 26, 1941, a Soviet air attack on the city was the pretext for the pogrom, two days after Romanian and German forces attacked the Soviet Union.
Matatias Carp cites "The atrocities against the Jews, which began on Thursday afternoon and were repeated on Friday and Saturday morning, during which seven Jews were killed, many injured and several businesses looted and destroyed, subsequently culminated in the violence and destruction of the great pogrom, which began on Saturday night."
In addition to "the bloodbath organized in the yard of the Police Headquarters, a great number of Jews were killed on Sunday in flats,
cellars, yards and in the streets. The slaughter in the streets continued into the second or even third day."
"On the same night, on the initiative of local military authorities, and with the approval of senior governmental bodies, the approximately 4,500 survivors were taken in marching columns, amid barbaric acts of torture, to the railway station and put on two trains for the purposes of evacuation and internment in Podul Iloaiei and Targu Frumos."
The 14th Infantry Division,under General Stavrescu, declared its mission of eradicating "those who are aiding the enemy".
In a telegram, General Stavrescu wrote that the Russian aviators "had accomplices among the Judeo-communist suspects of Iaşi."
Under orders from Ion Antonescu, Iaşi was to be "cleansed" of its Jewish population.
A systematic massacre by Iaşi police, Romanian and German soldiers, and citizens of Iaşi eliminated 8,000 Jews.
More than 5,000 Jews from Iaşi were loaded onto sealed death trains, that drove slowly back and forth across the country in the heat of the summer, killing most of their passengers from hyperthermia, thirst, or disease.

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Famous people from Iaşi:
* Naphtali Herz Imber, who wrote the lyrics for HaTikvah
* Filip Herşcovici, known as Philip Herschkowitz, composer and music theorist, pupil of Alban Berg and Anton Webern
* Samuel Simon Leibowitz, American criminal defense attorney, noted for winning the vast majority of his cases, and who became a New York City judge
* Elias Schwarzfeld אליאס (אליהו) שוורצפלד‎, historian and novelist
* Arthur Segal, artist and author, who studied with Schmid-Reutte and Hoelzel in Munchen, where he exhibited his work with the expressionist groups, Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter
* Leon Rene Yankwich, United States federal judge

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