AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE JEWS DEPORTED TO TRANSNISTRIA: THE CASE OF RESERVE LIEUTENANT ION BOGZA
AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE JEWS DEPORTED TO TRANSNISTRIA: THE CASE OF RESERVE LIEUTENANT ION BOGZA

Summary/Abstract: Concentrated in miserable conditions, in ghettos, labor colonies and camps, the Jews deported to Transnistria were in a desperate state, lacking any means. As a result of Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran’s interventions the authorization was obtained to send them relief through the Autonomous Relief Commission, which had been created in the aftermath of the Bucharest pogrom (January 1941). Medicines and money was also secretly sent with Romanian couriers, who thus showed their solidarity with the deported Jews. This paper describes the case of reserve lieutenant Ion Bogza, born in Ştefăneşti, who unfortunately forgot on a train, on March 20, 1942, a suitcase with Lei 363,500, sent by the Jews of Dorohoi to those deported in the Moghilev ghetto. This cost him his liberty, as he was court-martialed, but his dramatic negligence has allowed us to meet a person who does credit to Romanian humanism.

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