Murder story of Calarasi Jews in the Dumbrava Forest

… Approximately in July, I don't remember on which day, in 1941, 16 Jews – men, women, and children from different localities in the Cǎlǎraşi District, were arrested [in Cǎlǎraşi by members of the Romanian Gendarmerie] and were shot to death at the location called Dumbrava [Forest], where they were buried. … The perpetrators of these atrocities against Soviet civilians were members of the [Romanian] Gendarmerie. … Of those who were tortured to death there I know only one person from Cǎlǎraşi, the physician Averburg, I don't know his … first name. …

… In August 1941, with the intention of annihilating the local Jewish population, the Romanian Gendarmerie, headed by Sergeant - Instructor Stoiky, arrested 16 residents of the town of Cǎlǎraşi - Jewish men, women, and children, whom they brutally abused and, then, with force drove them on foot seven kilometers [from the town], toward the Dumbrava Forest, at the edge of which, near the village of Pǎuleşti, they [the Gendarmerie men] shot them [the Jews] to death….