The claim of the 34,000 Jews hanged from lampposts and burned by the Romanians in Odessa in 1941

 

The 34,000 Jews hanged from lampposts and burned by the Romanians in Odessa (1941)

The so-called Odessa massacre, sometimes called "the little Babi Yar" (which is as false as the "big one", - Ed.), is among the most important of World War II after those in the extermination camps. According to official Soviet history, maintained even today by the Ukraine at the expense of the Romanians who were exhorted "to assume their past", 5,000 Jews were executed, "hanged in groups of 3 to 5 victims at each lamppost along the boulevards of Odessa", and between 25,000 and 34,000 were shot or burned alive in October 1941 by Romanian forces under German control. The figure of 22,500 Jews killed is put forward in a report coordinated by Elie Wiesel (official report assumed by the Romanian state). The American Holocaust Memorial Museum, for its part, maintains that "Romanian and German forces killed almost 100,000 Jews in Odessa during the occupation of the city. 

The alleged massacres began on October 22, 1941, six days after Romanian troops entered Odessa, after an attack by Soviet partisans on the Romanian headquarters of the city killing General Joan Glogoieanu, commander of Odessa, 16 Romanian officers, 46 NCOs and soldiers and four German naval officers. The death toll was 135. That same evening, General Ion Antonescu is said to have ordered implacable reprisals against the civilian population, in particular against the Jews, claiming, in accordance with his propaganda, that "all Jews are communists". More than 100,000 Ukrainian Jews, in total, would have been massacred until the winter of 1942 in the Black Sea metropolis and the surrounding territories. It is unlikely, however, that the number of victims, given the lack of material evidence surrounding these exactions, could exceed a few dozen in Odessa.

Image at left, model of the Odessa Holocaust Museum's ammunition storage facility in which 24,000 Jews (30,000 according to other sources) were locked inside and then machine-gunned through holes in the walls and their bodies sprayed with gasoline and burned. At right, Mihail Zaslavsky, 93 years old in 2018, presented as the only known survivor of the massacre when he "escaped the Nazis", aged 16 at the time of the events.

This photograph, at left, showing seven people hanging from an improvised gallows, seems to be the only one publicly presented to attest to the hanging of 5,000 Jews from street lamps in the Black Sea metropolis in October 1941. At right, a few bodies lying on the ground in Byrzula (now Podilsk), a city 168 km northwest of Odessa. This image is also used to bear witness to massacres of Jews in the surrounding territories.

 

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