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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1991 6(1):1-16; doi:10.1093/hgs/6.1.1
© 1991 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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WAS THE TRANSNISTRIA RESCUE PLAN ACHIEVABLE?*

EPHRAIM OPHIR

Kibbutz Shoval Israel

Historians have examined various aspects of the fall 1942 proposal to allow some 70,000 Jews trapped and dying in Transnistria to emigrate from Romania. However, the central players and arena in this scheme, in Romania itself, have been largely ignored in the historiography. There were apparently several parallel negotiations, involving Romanian Jewish leaders, Romanian government officials, such as Radu Lecca, pnvate entrepreneurs who were also German or Romanian intelligence agents, and others. The initiative for the negotiations apparently came from the Romanians, in October 1942, with the Germans opposing it once they became aware of it two months later. By the time this rescue scheme became public knowledge, in February 1943, it had already been abandoned.

*I would like to thank David Silberklang for translating this article from the original Hebrew.


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