"The terror in Botosani began before 1940 with the establishment of the 'green house' of the legionnaires, when they came to power. That house was used as a headquarters, where they decided on all the anti-Semitic activities and where Jews, who were caught on the streets, were tortured when they disobeyed the night curfew. Sometimes the Jews received a summons to report to the authorities after 6 pm and they were arrested on their way, brought forcefully to the 'green house,' and tortured brutally. Restrictions and bans were enacted in Botosani as in other Romanian towns. The Jewish physicians only, especially the dentists - there were no Christian dentists - went on taking care of the Christians in spite the official ban. The town's residents and even the farmers from the vicinity did not forgo their medical care and the Jewish doctors had to examine and treat the sick late at night, accompanied by a policeman. In November-December 1940, the legionnaires robbed Jewish property. One day all the fabric in the Jewish textile stores was robbed. When the nationalization rules were passed (October 5th and November 17, 1940), the legionnaires seized the moment to confiscate Jewish property that was not included in the rules... ...On June 26, 1941, following an order of the interior ministry, 20 Jews were jailed - mostly Rabbis and slaughterers - as hostages and it was announced that with every Russian bombing two of them would be executed. In July 1941, their number reached 50-60. They were held in two rooms in the Jewish school and at last moved to the big synagogue. The district's head announced that 500 of Botosani's Jews would be executed if a spy was found among them. On July 3, 1941, the interior ministry cancelled the regulation that required wearing the yellow mark, but the military headquarters ordered, on August 14th of the same year that 'Jews of all gender and age must wear on the left side of the chest a star with six angles made of yellow fabric with a diameter of 7 cm on a black background.' On September 8, 1942, 42 Jews were deported to Transnistria as Communist suspects. Some of the deported were sent - following a selection in Tiraspol - to Vapniarca, a special quarantined camp in Transnistria, the rest were sent to Mostovoi ghetto in the Berezovea district, where they were shot on Yom Kipur (Day of Atonement), on September 22, 1941, by the SS and by the Romanian gendarms. In the second half of September, another 18 young Jewish men were deported to Mostovoi. In October 1942, the lawyer, B. Rorlich, was accused of 'inciting the population to immigrate to Erez Israel.' The number of those deported to Transnistria reached 148." http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/rom1_00029.html http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/romania.html#holocaust