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Marcu
The Holocaust in Romania Under the Antonescu Government

by Marcu Rozen
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The Author's Testimony as a Survivor of the Holocaust in Transnistria
B) Rare, Original, and Significant Documents Preserved by the Author
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The Author's Testimony as a Survivor of the Holocaust in Transnistria

-- Rare, Original, and Significant Documents Preserved by the Author--

 

1. The post card written by the author when he has 12 years old, addressed to his uncle Carol (Chaim) Peretz from Bucharest, in which he informs him about the death of his parents and of his grandmother and asks for help to save himself and his younger brother Sorel Rozen.

The stated postcard, posted hereinbelow, has been returned to the Author by his uncle upon the Author's return from Transnistria..

His uncle gave the postcard back to him, when he returned from Transnistria.

 

Cover postcard, Marcu Rozen
Exterior of the postcard

  

Sargorod 1/6 942

Dear uncle,

With great pain I have to write you that daddy, mummy and grandma have died and Sorel and I have been reduced to beggary.

…………………………………

Please do your best to bring Sorel and me to you.

Best regards to each of the family.

That's all

Love,

Marcu and Sorel


Interior postcard, Marcu Rozen
Interior of the postcard

 

2. A copy of the Petition sent by his uncle Carol (Chaim) Perez to the Marshal Ion Antonescu, through the Jewish Central Headquarters of Romania, in which he asks for the return of the two orphans from Transnistria. To this Petition, his uncle never received an answer.

To Mr. Marshal, the Chief of the Romanian State:

Mr. Marshal,

The undersigned Chaim Peretz, resident in Bucharest, 49, Calea Dorobantilor, et 2, I dare respectfully to submit to your high good will the lines as follows.

In the winter of 1941, together with a part of the Jewish population of Dorohoi, there has been also evacuated in Sargorod commune, the Moghilev district, Transnistria, the family of Iancu Rozen, my brother-in-law, composed of husband, wife, mother and 2 children: Marcu, 11, and Sorel, 4 .

Petition to Antonescu

  

This document was seen by this editor in December 2004 when he visited Marcu Rozen in Bucharest. The document was in extremely frail condition, the paper almost at its disintegration point. We have used in here a special computer program for enhancing the image.
These days I have received a card, a copy of which, I've taken the liberty to enclose, from my nephew Marcu Rozen, a child of 11 years old, by which he brings to my notice the sad news that his father, mother and grandmother had died and that he and his little brother have been reduced to beggary, without any support.

The parents, the grand parents of these children and also the children are all born in the Old Kingdom, in the Dorohoi commune and the grandfather of the children, on the mother's side, Meer Peretz, my father, besides the fact that he was born in the country, he also participated at the war of 1916-1918, according to the enclosed acts' copies and he died later on owing to illness caught during and because of the war.

The undersigned is also born in the country from parents born in the country and I took part in campaign from 1916-1918 with the grade of Trainee Warrant Officer &endash; Short Service, having the Military Infantry school from Botosani, being decorated with the Commemorative War Cross, according to the enclosed acts' copies.

In the name of these unfortunate children, left without any support, I refer respectfully, Mr. Marshall, to your high good will, to your spirit of justice and your humanity, begging you to approve and to dispose that these both motherless and fatherless children

Marcu Rozen, 11-12 years old. and

Sorel Rozen, 4-5 years old.

The children of Iancu Rozen, native of Dorohoi, now evacuated in the Sargorod commune, house No. 143, the Moghilev district, Transnistria, should be sent to Bucharest and handed over to my care and I oblige myself to support them having the possibilities as shows the enclosed certificate of the Jewish Community in Bucharest.

I beseech you, Mr. Marshal, to save these unfortunate children left alone among strangers and I assure you that we shall be grateful to you all our lives.


 3. Additional original documents secured by this editor in December 2004 when the editor visited the late Marcu Rozen at his home in Bucharest.

The first two pictures show the cover and the interior of the ID issued to Marcu Rozen from the Association of Former Deportees of Transnistra (AFDT). Those AFDT ID cards were issued to all those that survived and returned from Transnistria to Romania to be able to receive, upon their return, assistance and support.

The last picture is that of Marcu Rozen's ID Card issued by the local Police Station of the Dorohoi city.

 




 

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