When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Soviet soldiers and officers who managed the city since 1939 withdrew from Noveselitz and the Romanians allied with the Nazis entered the city on July 6. In the first 48 hours of occupation, they made what was called the “small pogrom”, in which 1,207 Jews were executed under the orders of Colonel Vasil Cislau and carried out by the troops of Major Gheorge Vartic.
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