6. What Do the Neutral Sources Say?

a. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss Embassy

In a report which appeared in the newspaper “USA Today” on May 8, 1997, written by Katy Kelly, the 260,000 victims are divided thus: 160,000 in Bessarabia, “massacred” in 1941-1942, and 100,000 in Transnistria. We learn from the press that in the same report the following were examined: “long-hidden documents from the International Red Cross, in order to reveal new facts about what occurred in Transnistria. These documents have shown in detail how the Red Cross failed to raise the alarm about the holocaust.”
In truth, many international inspections and investigations occurred in 1943 in Transnistria: the Vatican, the Swiss Embassy, the International Red Cross – investigations about which far too little has been said. Documents released by the International Red Cross (more correctly, the International Committee of the Red Cross) which we do not know who kept them “hidden for a long time”, finally came to those interested, to the Jewish community of Romania, who published them in 1998 at their own printing house, Hasefer, in Bucharest. The documents are not published in their entirety, but in selective fragments. The publisher, that is the representatives of the Jewish community, made that decision. And it must be understood from the very beginning: in the documents of the Red Cross, published by Hasefer in the book Ecouri dintr-o epoca tulbure – documente elvetiene 1940–1944 (Echoes from a turbid era – Swiss documents 1940–1944), there is not one ascertainment, nor one affirmation that sustains the idea of a Transnistrian holocaust. On the contrary, when they are clear and explicit, the reports made by the Red Cross inspector can only be interpreted as a contradiction to the figures posted in the Coral Temple of Bucharest. We will present more quotes from the aforementioned book, first concerning the Jews who abandoned Bessarabia together with the Soviet forces:
(1.) “in Chisinau, before the war, there were c. 60,000–80,000 Jews. A large part of them retreated with the Russians. During the occupation of the city (by Romanian troops – our note) there were only 4,000 Jews, whose number grew through emigration (emphasis added).” (ibid. p,12)
(2.) “in Moghilev c. 4,000 Jews remained,” writes a document from August 31, 1944. “The number of Jews grows daily, because the refugees are returning (emphasis added).”
Commentary: At the end of August, 1941, the Jews who fled together with the Russians began to return to Bessarabia, Chisinau, Moghilev, etc. One wonders, did these Jews not hear by the end of August, 1941, that Romanians had already maliciously murdered 180,000 Jews?
(3.) a document from the end of 1942, from P. Kuhne reporting: “Until this very moment (December of 1942 – our note) I have not been able to obtain exact figures for (1) those deported by Romanians and (2) those evacuated by Russians, but it appears that the latter is much larger (emphasis added). Not one concrete shred of evidence has arrived in Romania as to the effective fate of those evacuated, who should have been present, to a large part, in the Ukrainian regions during the Romano-German offensive on 1941–1942. (…) There were c. 241,000 missing persons . Only later can one establish how many of these abandoned their country and left for Russia.” (p.202) Not one word, however, about the holocaust, not one word about the fact that a part of the c. 240,000 missing was maliciously slain by Romanians! On the date that this report began, according to the monument in the courtyard of the Coral Temple, 260,000 Jews had already been murdered, more than the number who had disappeared (240,000) ! How could the Red Cross reporters and the Swiss Government not learn of, or speak a word about, the 260,000 Jews killed by Romanians ?!
The problem for us, those alive today, is if the international inspectors from the Red Cross could possibly obtain correct information in the field. We find out in the same book from the authors of the reports:
(4.) “The Romanian authorities accorded to me all possible cooperation, and I was able to speak to members of the Jewish communities in the areas visited, seeing all of their endowment: hospitals, orphanages, schools, mess halls, etc.” (p.196)
(5.) “In addition, I had the absolute freedom to speak with all of the representatives of the deportees from the locations visited, without witnesses and without interdiction.” (p.200)
(6.) “At Tiraspol, when I asked people (deported Jews) to tell me what they needed, they did not demand a thing, and declared to me that they were pleased with their actual living conditions and the manner with which they were treated by the authorities.” (p.204)
(7.) “At Balta, the members of the Jewish community leadership affirmed that they had good relations with the representatives of the government as well as with the gendarmes.” (p.208)
(8.) At Rabnita, “the ghetto, or more accurately the Jewish ward in the city (emphasis added), is well enough maintained, Jews having the freedom to circulate between the hours of 8 and 16. There are gendarmes posted at the entrance of the ward in order to block the entrance of German soldiers, as I have been told (emphasis added). There is no wall with barbed wire at the entrance.” (p.120)
(9.) “the Jewish ward in Sargorod is sufficiently large – it is composed, as is the whole area (emphasis added), of scattered homes, and is not separated from the homes of the local population.” (emphasis added) (p.216)
The representatives of the International Red Cross also spoke with the Romanian officials, from whom they learned the following facts, among others:
(10.) “Marshall Antonescu promised me that this situation (of the Jews housed in Transnistria – our note) does not in any way correspond with the intentions of the government and that the Jews are located there due to the fact that, during the great German offensive, there existed a plan to transfer all the Jews of Romania, Poland and White Russia to the Sea of Azov countries (emphasis added). During the German retreat, after the defeat at Stalingrad, a large number of Jews were heading toward the Azov Sea, and only with great difficulty could they partially return to Transnistria or be retained there.” (p.200)
Information concerning the emigration of Jews toward Palestine appears several times, the migration being supported by the Romanian Government yet impeded by the governments of other nations, including the Great Britain’s:
(11.) “numerous emigration projects are in motion but could not be completed, their implementation until now meeting the refusal of the Axis governments who will not grant the Jews authority to leave.” (p.303)
(12.) “the Romanian Government approved the emigration of 150 Jewish children to Palestine. (…) The convoy will be accompanied to the Bulgarian border by Romanian nurses.” (p.306–307)
(13.) “two years have passed since a resolution signed by Marshall Antonescu, the head of the Romanian state, designated that we busy ourselves with the problem of Jewish emigration from Romania. The resolution of this problem has encountered many difficulties, especially the lack of ships and the unwillingness of certain states to issue visas.” (p.301, Memo of the International Company “Wagon-Lits Cook”)
(14.) “It is certain that the Jewish emigration problem has not yet made appreciable progress, but this does not at all refer to the Romanian Government, which has permitted, upon the first request, the emigration of Jews found in Romania.” (p.333)
(15.) “I must also add that I have received information that the Romanian Government is interested in relieving itself of these Jews and will not create difficulties for this emigration.” (p.304)
Not one trace of holocaust, not one trace of the 260,000 Jews who were already maliciously slain by the time the International Red Cross visited the Jews of Bessarabia and Transnistria! If these Jews have a reason to complain, it is the perspective of losing the Romanian administration’s protection! That is, the loss of the protection of those who already killed almost 300,000 of them! Here are two selections that need no commentary:
(16.) “During the aforementioned visits, I was able to speak to a number of Jews of Transnistrian origin, Russian citizens. According to their words, they have very good relations with the deportees, who they have given precious support, especially in the early period. On their own initiative they have praised the Romanian administration as well as its representatives. Only once, I have been accosted by the Russian Jews, who asked that I intervene alongside the Romanian Government in order that they are given the authorization to leave Transnistria, together with their Romanian co-religionists, and that they be allowed to settle in Romania. They would even accept being held hostage (by Romanians) in concentration camps, rather than live under Soviet administration (emphasis added).” (P.225)
(We do not know who had the interest to withhold these documents, but it is clear that Romanian interests are excellently served by these documents, which yet again and definitively illustrate – for honest persons – what the holocaust in Transnistria is all about!)
(17.) “The Jews from Bukovina live in abject terror, fearing what will occur after the withdraw of Romanian authorities (emphasis added) and ask permission to find refuge in the Old Kingdom in order to take shelter from the persecutions to which, undoubtedly, they will be subjected. If I permit myself, Mr. Interim President of the Council of Ministers, to make myself the spokesman of these unfortunates, I implore you to have goodwill and permit the Jewish population of Bukovina to abandon that region together with the Romanian population and under the same conditions. I am sure that the International Red Cross at Geneva, as well as world public opinion, will appreciate this beautiful humanitarian gesture!” (p.372, part of a letter of gratitude from the International Committee of the Red Cross to Mihai Antonescu.)
The above statements discredit the monument in the courtyard of the Coral Temple as well as the Holocaust Museum in Washington! But shame is a rare flower among (Jewish) communists!
And finally, let us also quote from a memorandum which the Jewish Community of Bucharest sends to the International Red Cross, in which they demand the intervention of a high court, along with the Romanian authorities, so that these authorities will renounce the “atrocious and illegal sanctions” placed upon Romanian Jews. Which were these “atrocious sanctions”; which were, therefore, the renowned atrocities committed by Ion Antonescu against Jews? We continue reading from the aforementioned text:
(18.) “The deportation, confiscation of properties, as well as the recently added revocation of forceful work exemption, a privilege given according to the economic utility, and the payment of certain sizable taxes.” (p.368)
Not a word in this memorandum, however, about the almost 300,000 Jews “maliciously slain” by Ion Antonescu and his colleagues! On the contrary, the Jews who Antonescu spared from the front lines, from the actual conflict where c. 1 million young Romanians died, consider it an atrocity that he revoked their forceful work exemption and forced them to pay taxes!… Such was the Jewish holocaust in Romania, at least in the eyes of the Jews, hic et nunc, that is, at the date and place of the occurrence. This was a holocaust which is not evidenced by the number of deaths – the Jews themselves do not complain of one serious loss inflicted by the Ion Antonescu Government; but rather by the amount of money which the Jews were obliged to pay as a proper contribution to the Romanian war effort. That is, this was no longer a holocaust, but a pure and simple “holocash”.
Let us also note the document on page 351, from which we quote:
(19.) “It is true that, bowing to foreign pressure (emphasis added), the Romanian Government reinstated an order which declared that persons who clandestinely enter Romania could possibly be condemned to death. In spite of this, the Romanian Government did not at all intend to enforce this order and took necessary administrative measures so that those who entered the nation, from the moment the ordinance was published, would not be condemned.” (p.351)
Information is precious, as many of the anti-Semitic ordinances and laws from those years were issued under the influence of “certain foreign powers”, the same way that Order no. 31/2002 of the Adrian Nastase government has been issued under American pressure! Only that those measures, imposed by the European Community of that period, were never enforced by Antonescu. But today, they are the acts based on which he is accused of being a “war criminal”. They have never been substantiated, however, or in any way shown to be factual, but this has no importance to the Bolshevik-like justice which dealt with Antonescu in 1946, as well as in 2002! Marshall Antonescu had to be declared a war criminal; although without any factual basis, they considered that the intentions were good enough to incriminate him!
In order to definitively explain the degree to which Wilhelm Filderman may be considered representative of Judaism in Romania, we consider the note signed by the Swiss Ambassador to Romania, René de Weck:
(20.) “The Israeli Romanians directly consider their veritable leader to be Wilhelm Filderman, the elder lawyer who even the most rabid anti-Semites willingly recognize as perfectly honorable.” It appears, however, that the most rabid anti-Semites are more honest than the Jewish communists of the Holocaust Museum, who do not think twice about Filderman.
Other information and quotes from the archives of the International Red Cross:
(21.) “The Romanian part insists that the responsibility for the majority of Jews applies to the Russians. (…) I have grave doubts that this figure (of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina who fled to the USSR in June of 1941 – our note) will ever be obtained, considering the reticence of the Russian Government toward giving any indication regarding the foreigners in Russia. It is very probably that the great majority were actually evacuated during the period of the Russian occupation of Bukovina and Bessarabia (emphasis added), but, in any case, a considerable number of deaths were inflicted during the Romanian domination.” (p.257)
A number of figures are expressed in this same document, noted by author Charles Kolb as “figures from Jewish information”:
4,000–5,000 Jews killed in the “Cernauti massacres”
Yassy – 10,000
These figures and others, offered by “Jews”, must also be viewed from the perspective of the information obtained by Charles Kolb, from the same sources, whereas in 1941 the Legionnaires murdered “500 Jews”! Shall he ratio of 1:4 between truth and lie be valid in all cases?
We also learn from this Jewish source (Memorandumul (The Memorandum) received by Vladimir de Steiger from the Jewish community leadership in Romania) that:
(22.) “Among the Jews deported from Bessarabia and Bukovina, c. 150,000 arrived in Transnistria. After the first winter, due to cold, hunger and a typhoid fever epidemic (emphasis added), 75,000 remained, of whom 7,000-8,000 were orphaned of both parents (p.267).”
This memorandum also contains the solution to the problem, as seen by Jews from Bucharest:
(23.) “The single method of caring for the deported remains the acquisition of massive amounts of foreign aid. If this aid does not arrive with urgency, the unfortunates shall perish en masse of hunger and especially of the diseases which appear as a result of anemia and vitamin deficiency.” (p.268)
Let us compare this urgent plea for foreign funds made by Jews in Bucharest with the findings made in situ by the International Committee of the Red Cross:
6. “When I asked people to tell me what they needed, they did not demand a thing (emphasis added), and declared to me that they were pleased with their actual living conditions and the manner with which they were treated by the authorities.” (see above, (4)–(9)).
Let us once again emphasize the cause of death of the Jews deported in Transnistria, as presented by the Jewish leaders in a memorandum given to certain neutral international authorities: “from cold, hunger and a typhoid fever epidemic.”
In the same document the authors, demanding the support of the West for the organization of Jewish emigration from Romania to Palestine, specify:
(24.) “We are aware of the reticence of the Allies concerning this mass emigration (emphasis added). (…) But we believe that, in face of the immense tragedy of these innocent children fated to perish, any reticence must disappear and the Allies will make this generous gesture, which history will certainly record. (…) The extreme urgency of the problem is determined by the possibility of replacing the Romanian civil authorities in Transnistria with German military power, and in this case, all of the deportees risk sharing, in an instant, the sad fate of the Polish Jews.” (p.268-270)
Therefore, the fate of Jews in Transnistria was in good hands as long as the Romanian administration took care of them! The Romanians were not the threat to Jews in Transnistria!… How unaware were these Jews, who did not realize who was responsible for the victims, that years later the illustrious Messrs. Radu Ioanid and Alexandru would still have to discover the truth?!
References are also made in the work quoted above about the German culpability for the suffering of Jews in Bessarabia and Bukovina. Here are several excerpts from the diplomatic reports sent to the Swiss Minister in Bucharest, René de Weck:
(25.) “The deportation to the Bug River of Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia, the survivors of pogroms organized by those glorious defenders of the European civilization, is in progress.” (p.90)
(26.) “Romanian officers returning from Transnistria testify, with faces red from shame, that the massacre of the deportees continues. Evidently, they place the blame on their allies.” (p.97)
(27.) “The Jewish deportees who remained in those regions through which German troops pass in retreat, risk being massacred en masse by the SS.” (p.115)
(28.) “The German Legation complains bitterly about General Potopeanu, who succeeded Alexianu as governor of Transnistria. They accuse him as if he committed a crime when he aided the return to Romania of 26,000 Jews, who therefore escaped the “benevolent” attention of the SS. But acting like this, the general merely implemented the commitment made by the Prime Minister with the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.” (p.117)
(29.) “From the time that Hitler forced the Hungarians to practice integral anti-Semitism on their soil, many Jews from Hungary are trying to flee to Romania. They collect with the Israelites who continue to flee from Poland. An agreement has been reached between Mihai Antonescu and the Delegation of the International Red Cross, according to which the Romanian Government will close its eyes while the representatives of the Committee from Geneva have taken it upon themselves to promptly organize the emigration of these refugees to Palestine.” (p.117)
(30.) “The German Legation does not ignore the fact that, for money (emphasis added), Germans from both the Wermacht and the SS have themselves taken many Israelite refugees in military vehicles to Bucharest.” (p.118)
Jews also advertise this peril to Charles Kolb:
(31.) “The danger of being abandoned to SS troops and violently exterminated. (…) There have already been massacres in locations around Moghilev. The only solution is the repatriation of all the deportees, in order to avoid a mass extermination.” (p.245)
Therefore, in 1943, Jews from Transnistria did not consider Romanians guilty or even capable of committing “mass exterminations”!
What do the Jews from Washington do in and after 1990? They forget about the German intervention in the events that took place in Yassy, Bukovina, Bessarabia and across the Dnister – for this intervention, which the Germans have taken responsibility, Israel for years received “holocash”. And they have proposed that the Romanians also pay for these same Jews who perished or disappeared in Transnistria! For Jews cruelly murdered by Germans, as well as for those murdered by Russians and Ukrainians! By this miserable subterfuge, communist (COMINTERN) Jews are encouraged by the fact that the lies, aberrations and abuses committed during the trial of Marshall Ion Antonescu are still tolerated by the Romanian courts as well as Romanian civil society! The delay (until when?!) of the beginning of the Trial on Communism makes possible this maneuver even more immoral and criminal than the invoked Holocaust itself!
Let us return to normal, honest Jews and quote further from the archives of the International Red Cross:
(32.) “The fact that the fears of the deportees are not at all exaggerated is demonstrated by an excerpt from the speech given by Andreas Schmidt, the leader of the German ethnic community of Romania, on January 1, 1944, which contains a barbarian call for the assassination of all Jews in Romania. (…) Jews who presented this excerpt from the speech received as a direct response (from the Romanian authorities – our note) the assurance that the Romanian Government will know how to defend the lives of all those who live in the nation.” (p.256)
(33.) “It is evident that the position of Romania is weakened by the alliance with Germany, which has installed in Bucharest an office dedicated to the Jewish problem and does not cease demanding the application of the special Nürnberg laws, as well as the complete expulsion (emphasis added) of Jews from Romania. Mr. Antonescu gave me more examples in order to demonstrate the efforts that he had to make in order for Romania to avoid being forced to follow that road to the end, but due to the circumstances, (Romania) cannot yet avoid the demands which are placed upon it, and sometimes must conform to them in order to avoid even more disagreeable consequences (emphasis added).” (p.276)
In closing this chapter, let us consider the conclusions reached by Charles Kolb, in his report to the Committee of the International Red Cross:
(34.) “I believe that the Romanian Government was surprised by the events that happened during the deportation and has labored to ameliorate the situation of the deportees from the moment that the disastrous results were brought to their attention. Sadly, the deportation and the deplorable consequences which resulted cannot be changed, but by repatriating the deportees, the repayment of the debt of humanity to a gravely tested population is possible. In my opinion, only by proceeding in this manner can the Romanian Government free itself from the responsibility that comes from the fact that the deportees are now, by its order, located in the territory of the enemy (emphasis added).” (p.247)
(35.) “The declared scope of the Romanian Government has been to correct the Jewish problem once and for all, deciding on the departure (emphasis added) of all the Jews from their communities. It appears more than possible that the catastrophic results of the displacement of an abundant population were not foreseen.” (p.246)
As is known, the Government of Romania permitted and finally organized the repatriation of the Jews deported in Transnistria, that which, in the eyes of the International Red Cross, is equivalent to the clearing of Romanian culpability toward the Jews