Iris...
Congratulations on your findings due to your perseverance. From Dennis Deletant's book "Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–44" we learn more on Balta, f. i. that Traian Popovici appealed to Antonescu by stating:
"Romania’s international reputation and its 'national dignity' had suffered enormous damage because those deported, once they had reached their destination, had been exposed to the most unimaginable torments and in some cases, since not even the most rudimentary shelter had been prepared for them, had been left in the middle of winter, up until 20 December, under the open sky. This had happened in Bershad in Balta county. On average between 60 per cent and 70 per cent of the deportees had perished because of this – in Balta even 85 per cent – and along with them, our importance as a civilizing factor in South-Eastern Europe, had perished as well in an extremely painful manner."
On "The establishment of ghettos in Transnistria" we learn on p. 184: "The conditions under which all Jews – both deportees and locals – were to live were initially laid down by the Romanian prefects, once they had established themselves in the newly designated county seats of Transnistria. They instructed the local Jews in certain towns to declare themselves to the authorities, to leave their houses and to move into ghettos. On 3 September 1941, Colonel Vasile Nica, the prefect of Balta county, ordered all the Jews – or 'kikes' (jidani) as he termed them in the ordinance – in the town to move into the ghetto, in an area restricted to four streets, within three days. He appointed the Jewish elder Pribluda Sloimu Abramovici head of the ghetto, allowing him to select colleagues to assist him in administration. A bakery, pharmacy and a hospital staffed solely by Jews were to be established independently by the Jews, and flour for the bakery to be provided by the town of Balta against payment. A market was to be set up in the ghetto where the inhabitants could buy and sell produce between 9 am and 12 am. The head of the ghetto was authorized to set up a Jewish police force to protect the lives and belongings of the residents. Entry to and exit from the ghetto between 11 am and 4 pm were allowed for those with a permit issued by the ghetto commandant – a gendarmerie officer. All Jews of both sexes between the ages of 14 and 60 were required to present themselves daily at 7 am at the ghetto centre in order to be allocated work by the ghetto commandant. For monitoring the movements and activities of the Jews, all ghetto residents were to be issued with identity cards, signed by the ghetto head and countersigned by the commandant, and a number, which they would sew on their clothing next to the Star of David. Without this number no Jew could go out into the town. All the Jews were to be entered into a register for census purposes, and those that failed to register were to be denied bread, even on payment. All other Jews, be it from elsewhere in the town, the county or others who arrived in the district, were to be sent to the ghetto. Any act of insubordination, revolt or ‘terrorism’ on the part of a Jew would lead to his punishment by death and that of 20 other Jews."
Just sad! I'm going to send a pdf version of Dennis Deletant's book "Hitler's Forgotten Ally - Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–44" by separate mail to you, dear Iris.
Edgar Hauster
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From: bounce-121122114-8322570_at_list.cornell.edu <bounce-121122114-8322570_at_list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Iris AlRoy <mermamma_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 08:07
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: [Cz-L] Payment to residents of Balta Ghetto
I've been able to get a copy of a document showing monetary amounts
that were to be remitted to the Jews in Balta Ghetto, from the Odessa
Oblast Archives - with a line item concerning money due to my
grandmother, Ettel Schmatnik.
According to this link in JewishGen:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/0121_Balta-Ghetto.html
"The Jews in Transnistria were promised a daily wage in the form of
food and money, but in practice received no pay at all for their work
until late of 1943."
I take this to mean that the amount listed was supposed to be paid to
my grandmother Ettel Schmatnik, in exchange for her labor.
I'm searching through the 'black book' pdf and it looks like Balta is
the county where the town of Bershad is- where other relatives of mine
were held. A few facts I found in this pdf:
--Thanks to the greed of Capt. Ambrus, the commander of the Balta
gendarme legion, a part of the Jews who had been deported according to
an order of the Supreme General Staff and closed into a barns, were
freed and allowed to move into the town because each family paid
60,000 lei.
--Jews of Bershad were sent to work at the cloth factory in Balta.
--There was a 'Balta labor battalion'
Does anyone have good resources on the work done by Jews in the Balta ghetto?
On a related note, I see, Edgar, that you posted several clips -
interviews with survivors of the area that are on youtube - wonderful.
http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=1530
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Iris AlRoy
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