Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (35 page)

26.
“Ordonan
a No. 35,” Jan. 2, 1942, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 1. See also “Instruc
iuni pentru evacuarea popula
iei evree
ti din municipiului Odesa
i împrejurimi,” USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 1; ibid., RG 25.003M, Reel 394; Litani, “Destruction of the Jews of Odessa,” 144–47; Ioanid,
Holocaust in Romania
, 208–10.

27.
Arad,
Holocaust in the Soviet Union
, 244.

28.
Velcescu to Transnistrian government, Feb. 13, 1942, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 3.

29.
See the declarations and signature lists in USHMM, RG-25.003M, Reel 394.

30.
I have reconstructed the story of T
nase and Sepel from “Ordinul C.2.A, Serv. Pretoral Nr. 4057/14.I.1942,” USHMM, RG-25.003M, Reel 394, and “Ordin de zi, nr. 217,” Feb. 9, 1942, USHMM, RG-25.003M, Reel 394.

31.
Velcescu to Transnistrian government, Apr. 11, 1942, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 3.

32.
“Deciz 2927,” Dec. 7, 1943, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 3.

33.
Litani, “Destruction of the Jews of Odessa,” 152.

34.
Dallin,
Odessa
, 162, fn56.

35.
Werth,
Russia at War, 1941–1945
, 825.

36.
Alexianu to Antonescu, Nov. 7, 1941, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 1.

37.
See USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 14.

38.
Velcescu to Alexianu, Feb. 13, 1942, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 3.

39.
See correspondence between Alexianu and Inspectorate of Gendarmerie, May 1942, and case files of Daria Ovselevici, 1943, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 3.

40.
See Case,
Between States
, and Solonari,
Purifying the Nation
.

41.
“Ordonan
a No. 89,” Sept. 28, 1942, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 1.

42.
“Odesa de eri
i de ast
zi,”
Gazeta Odesei
, Jan. 17, 1943, reproduced in
DCFRJ
, 4: 429–30.

43.
I am grateful to Vladimir Solonari for several conversations about these issues.

44.
See USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 2; and “Memoriu cu privire la problemele practice, pe care le ridica? în toamna 1942 românii de peste Bug,” Sept. 21, 1942, GAOO, f. R-2249, op. 3, d. 111, ll. 11–15.

45.
Br
tianu, “Notes sur un voyage en Crimée,” 176–82.

46.
“Raport,” Nov. 19, 1941, GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, l. 1.

Chapter 10: “I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION THE FOLLOWING”

1.
See Cherkasov,
Okkupatsiia Odessy
.

2.
GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, ll. 3–8, 9–12.

3.
“Raport,” Nov. 28, 1941, GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, l. 13.

4.
“Raport,” Nov. 28, 1941, GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, l. 13.

5.
“Raport,” n.d. [1941], GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, l. 32.

6.
“Raport,” Nov. 26, 1941, GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, l. 36.

7.
“Raport,” Nov. 19, 1941, GAOO, f. R-2262, op. 1, d. 1, 1. 64. See also ibid., ll. 69, 153; ibid., d. 8, l. 38; ibid., d. 2, ll. 4-6.

8.
“Comunicare,” Feb. 22, 1942, USHMM, RG-31.004M, Reel 3.

9.
See Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Signals from Below: Soviet Letters of Denunciation of the 1930s,” in Fitzpatrick and Gellately, eds.,
Accusatory Practices
, 85–120; Fitzpatrick, “Supplicants and Citizens” and Fitzpatrick,
Tear Off the Masks!
.

10.
“Raport,” Nov. 20, 1941, GAOO, f. R-2662, op. 1, d. 2, l. 19. On the earlier history of denunciation, see Grünewald, “Jewish Workers in Odessa.”