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Dec 24, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Fascist Romanian government have now deported 140,000 Ukrainian Jews east, in brutal death marches to camps in Transnistria.
Typhus has broken out in Jewish concentration camp at Bogdanovka; in response, Romanian guards have decided to murder all 55,000 prisoners.
Romanian troops have locked 5000 sick & elderly Jews in disused stables, then set the buildings ablaze- remaining 50,000 have been marched to a local ravine to be shot.

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