Popricani

Popricani
Commune
Popricani
Coordinates: 47°18′N 27°31′E / 47.300°N 27.517°E
Country  Romania
County Iași County
Population (2011 census)[1] 7,393
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)

Popricani is a commune in Iași County, Romania, part of the Iași metropolitan area. It is composed of nine villages: Cârlig, Cotu Morii, Cuza Vodă, Moimești, Popricani, Rediu Mitropoliei, Țipilești, Vânători and Vulturi.

Mass grave

In November 2010, a mass grave dating from 1941 was discovered in the nearby forest of Vulturi. It is believed to contain the remains of up to a hundred Jewish men, women and children murdered by Romanian authorities contemporaneously with the nearby Iași pogrom.[2][3][4] It is the first such grave found in Romania since the 1945 discovery of 311 bodies at Stânca-Roznovanu, also in the vicinity of Iași.[5][6]

An official report concluded that the grave contained 36 victims, and that those responsible for the killing had already been sentenced in 1948.[7]

References

  1. "Population at 20 October 2011" (in Romanian). INSSE. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  2. "'Holocaust grave' discovered in Romania". BBC News. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  3. "Holocaust-era mass grave discovered". The Press Association (UK). Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  4. "Descoperire istorică la Iaşi" (in Romanian). TVR. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  5. Marinas, Radu (Nov 5, 2010). "World War Two mass grave of Jews found in Romania". Reuters Africa. p. 2. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  6. Braham, Randolph L. (1997). The destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews during the Antonescu era. Holocaust studies series East European monographs. Social Science Monographs. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-88033-380-1.
  7. Decizie fara precedent la Iasi privind masacrul evreilor, ziare.com, April 2014. Retrieved February 2015.

Coordinates: 47°18′N 27°31′E / 47.300°N 27.517°E