Fotografii ale Pogromului de la Iaşi păstrate în Bundesarchiv şi o investigaţie în legătură cu ele făcută la Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg, în 1965-1966
Photographs of the Iaşi Pogrom Kept in the Bundesarchiv and an Investigation about Them Made at Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg, in 1965-1966

Summary/Abstract: The German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) contain nine photographs of the Iaşi Pogrom of June 28-30, 1941. The photographs are part of a file belonging to the Bundesarchiv-Außenstelle Ludwigsburg. The original photographs were taken by an unknown photographer, on July 1, 1941, at the train station in Târgu Frumos, where one of the two “death trains” stopped, by which the Jews arrested in those days in Iaşi were transported and in which many of them died. Now, they are kept in the Photo Archive (Bildungsarchiv) of the Bundesarchiv Koblenz. This article makes a presentation of the nine photographs, by comparing them with the photographs kept in other archives in Romania and abroad and by placing them in the context of the events of those days, and publishes two of these pieces, from which one can be found only in the Bundesarchiv. At the same time, the article describes an investigation into these photographs and the person who possessed them (a former Wehrmacht soldier) carried out in 1965-1966 by the Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg (Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung Nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen). On that occasion, this German judicial institution became interested in the Pogrom in Iaşi and it is understood that the documents created by it mention this tragic event.

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