Marginalization, Isolation, and Deportation of the Jews of Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Bukovina, March-October 1941
Marginalization, Isolation, and Deportation of the Jews of Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Bukovina, March-October 1941

Summary/Abstract: In this research, I am showing how the Romanian authorities treated the Jewish communities in Southern Bukovina, especially that from Câmpulung Moldovenesc, in the years 1940-1941. The main sources that underline this endeavor are the documents of the Câmpulung Prefecture, currently held by the Suceava branch of the National Archives. Those archives are incomplete, documents are missing that highlighted the correspondence exchanged between the Ministry of the Interior and the Câmpulung Prefecture, as well as a great many directives of the Police, the Gendarmerie, and, implicitly, the institution of the Prefect. Thus, historical truth is being recovered only partially. The gaps left behind by the disappearance of documents from the archives can be filled, to a certain extent, by the diaries, memoirs, and testimonies of the Holocaust survivors from the former Câmpulung county of Southern Bukovina. Hence, I am showing how the Prefecture was the main institution responsible for the marginalization of the Jews from towns, by evacuating them to outside neighborhoods initially and preparing for the great deportations to Transnistria, that took place during the fall of 1941. I am showing that the Prefecture was the institution responsible also for the Jews’ dispossessions of mobile and immobile goods, that were afterwards put at the disposal of other ethnics, being either sold or rented. This whole process of the Jews’ deportation was put up and worked out entirely by the Romanian authorities, without any help from the Germans or any other outer support.

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