Transnistria (Moldova)

A narrow territory located between the Bug and Dniester rivers along the former border between Romania and Ukraine in what is today Moldova. Transnistria was annexed to Romania after German and Romanian troops conquered the Ukraine in 1941, and the Axis-aligned Romanian government immediately began deporting Jews from throughout Romania to camps and ghettos in the region. Between 150,000-250,000 Jews from Romania and Ukraine were murdered or died as a result of maltreatment and poor conditions in Transnistria.