[elpadre]

“...There was once a large and thriving Jewish community in the country. Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, was 46% Jewish. In the Kingdom of Romania during the Holocaust, an estimated 380,000–400,000 Jews died in then-Romanian-controlled areas including Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transdniestria.

Romania is said to rank first among Holocaust perpetrator countries other than Nazi Germany. Today, there are about 15,000 Jews in Moldova and Transdniestria....
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[Fiji Hill]

One of those Jews from Chișinău was David Stoliar, the only one of about 300 passengers and crew to survive the 1942 sinking of the Struma, a ship carrying Jewish refugees trying to get to Palestine. Interestingly, his father, who remained in Romania, survived the war but his mother, who had fled to France, was sent to her death at Auschwitz.

[cambyses]

Moldova (Bessarabia) was part of the Great Romania between 1918 and 1940.Due to the pact Ribbentrop-Molotov , Soviet Army occupied Moldova in 1940 and incorporated it in USSR till 1990. There was no holocaust or Jewish People deportation in concentration camps as long Moldova was part of Romania.
In the year of 1940 due to the same Pact , Ribbentrop- Molotov
part of the North West of Romania was occupied by Hungarian Army and stay under Hungarian administration till the end of the world war 2. There was a massive deportation of the Jewish People to concentration camps from that territories under the Hungarian Administration, including the family of Ellie Wiesel.
There was no deportations or holocaust in Romania. The Quine Elena of Romania helped the Romanian Jewish People in time of the war and is well respected by the State of Israel.