Prior to the Holocaust, the city of Iași, Romania, was home to a large, vibrant Jewish community. But in just a span of a few days in summer 1941, Iași would forever be changed. On the orders of Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu, authorities in the city instigated violence against the Jewish population. A city-wide pogrom resulted in the murder of thousands of the city's Jews. The perpetrators were the Romanian soldiers, police, and civilians, with assistance from their German allies stationed in the city. Haim Solomon, who had moved with his family to Iași in 1939, remembered how some of the Jewish population was assembled at police headquarters. "Aligned on both sides were Romanians, Germans ... and as the Jews passed by, they split their heads or shot them in their temple," he described. Hundreds more would be killed on the street or in their homes. The Romanian and German perpetrators also sent thousands of Jews to the towns of Călărași and Podu Iloaiei by packing them...