Content note: Official notice imposing an antisemitic curfew on Jews and threatening the execution of detained Jewish hostages, 1941. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"Publicațiune": Pașcani mayor's notice on a Jewish curfew and hostage executions, 4 July 1941
Typeset public notice headed 'Publicațiune' from the mayor's office of Pașcani, dated 4 July 1941 and citing an order of General Antonescu and the Interior Ministry. It bans Jews from the streets between 18:00 and 07:00 and declares that any 'treason, aggression, sabotage or terrorism' by Jews, their families, communists or 'communist legionaries' will be punished by death, 'the first to be executed being the detained Jewish hostages'. The tell: the threat is set in the largest bold type, and the sentence names one group's detained members as the first to pay for acts by anyone on the list.
- Date
- July 4, 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Primăria comunei urbane Pașcani (mayor A. Hanciu), acting on an order of Ion Antonescu and the Interior Ministry
- Country
- Romania
- Medium
- Document
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Antonescu Regime
- Leader
- Ion Antonescu
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appealScapegoating
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (reproduction of an official notice), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (official administrative text, not protected under Romanian Law 8/1996 art. 9(b); Commons PD-RO-exempt)
Primăria Pașcani, 4 July 1941, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
PRIMARIA COMUNII URBANE PAȘCANI — JUDEȚUL BAIA — PUBLICATIUNE Pe baza ordinului Domnului GENERAL ANTONESCU Conducătorul Statului și al Onor. Ministerului de Interne No. 4599/941, Comunicat de Prefectura Jud. Baia No. 434/941 aducem la cunoștința generală că nici un evreu femee sau barbat nu are voe să circule pe străzi între orele 18 până la 7 dimineața și nici să se găsească în locuințele lor alte persoane, în afară de membrii familiei. Deasemenea facem cunoscut că în conf. cu ordinele mai sus arătate orice acte de trădare, agresiune, sabotaj sau terorism din partea evreilor sau a familiilor cât și a comuniștilor și legionarilor comuniști se vor pedepsi cu moartea, primii fiind executați ostatecii evrei deținuți. Dată la Pașcani astăzi 4 Iulie 1941. PRIMAR, A. HANCIU
MAYOR'S OFFICE OF THE URBAN COMMUNE OF PAȘCANI — BAIA COUNTY — NOTICE On the basis of the order of Mr GENERAL ANTONESCU, Leader of the State, and of the Honourable Ministry of the Interior no. 4599/941, communicated by the Prefecture of Baia County no. 434/941, we bring to general knowledge that no Jew, woman or man, is permitted to circulate in the streets between 18:00 and 7 in the morning, nor may any persons other than family members be found in their dwellings. Likewise we make known that, in accordance with the orders set out above, any acts of treason, aggression, sabotage or terrorism on the part of the Jews or their families, as well as of the communists and communist legionaries, will be punished by death, the first to be executed being the detained Jewish hostages. Given at Pașcani today, 4 July 1941. MAYOR, A. HANCIU
Transcribed from the reproduction; the right edge of the first line is cropped in the reproduction (the last letter of 'PAȘCANI' is cut). Spelling and abbreviations ('Deasemenea', 'conf.', 'ostatecii') are as printed. The English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
