| Summary: | “Solidarity and Suffering”Anticipating the eventual transfer and “special handling” of local and recently deported Bessarabian and Bukowinan Jews into German-controlled Ukraine, Romanian authorities established numerous “holding” or “containment” ghettos and concentration camps for Jews in Transnistria, their newly acquired territory between the Dniester and Bug rivers. A comparative examination of three of these concentration camps – Bogdanovka, Pechora, and Cariera de Piatra – as a prelude to a more detailed analysis of the “political/labor camp” Vapniarka, illustrates the range of practices characterizing the Romanian camp “system,” or, more accurately perhaps, the lack of a system.
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