The Death Train

In Iasi Romania from June 28 to July 6 1941 nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom At the time the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began After the war the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers and a few remaining survivors