Bodies being removed from the Iasi Death Train during a stop in Targu-Frumos on the journey. The Iasi Pogrom was a series of pogroms launched by governmental forces under Marshal Ion Antonescu in the Romanian city of Iași. It lasted from 29 June to 6 July 1941. 13,266 people, or one third of the Jewish population, were massacred .,Many were deported. It was one of the worst pogroms during World War II. Those deported were done so in appalling conditions and their train was known as the Iasi Death Train. Of the 5000 people on the train, only 1011 arrived alive.

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