The Planning of the Deportation of Romanian Jewry

THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE ROMANIAN RAILROAD

The Traffic Department

24 September [194]2

4754/R.D.L.

Regarding your letter 896/212 Col. SIC, this is to inform you that Marshal Ion Antonescu has ordered that “evacuation of the Jews from the country shall be prepared in minute detail by the Interior Ministry on the basis of the guidelines [provided] by Mr. Mihai Antonescu.” Please apply to the Interior Ministry for the solution of the problems mentioned in your letter.

THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSAR FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWISH QUESTION IN ROMANIA

Radu Lecca

Source: Jean Ancel, "Plans for Deportation of the Romanian Jews and their Discontinuation in Light of Documentary Evidence (July—October 1942)," Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 16, 1984, p. 400.

Source: Yad Vashem