Romanians recalled that hundreds of Jews were assassinated eight decades ago, during the Holocaust in this country.

Bucharest.- The ceremony was held at the memorial monument located in the center of this capital in the absence of the country's highest authorities, such as President Klaus Iohannis or Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.

On behalf of the Romanian presidency, State Councilor Catalina Galer said that on October 9, 1941, authorities made a decision whose tragic repercussions would remain engraved in history.

Her words alluded to the deportation of Jews to Transnistria, a region occupied at that time in eastern Moldavia, which today belongs to Ukraine.

Ion Antonescu’s military regime sent some 140,000 Jews there to be murdered.

The event is commemorated every October 9 and this time it took place normally, but with tight deployment of security agents due to the unstable situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip. (PL)