Edineţ fled before that.
Within two days several hundred Bessarabian Jews of Edineţ were murdered by
units of Einsatzkommando D and Romanian gendarms, assisted by quite a few
civilians that came to profit from the Jews. Many women and young girls were
raped; some of them committed suicide. The victims were buried in three large
ditches, then the Jewish gravediggers who had interred the bodies were in turn
murdered and buried on the same spot. In the middle of August a ghetto was set
up. Surviving Jews of Edineţ and others from different places from the north of
Bessarabia, and from Bukovina were interned. In September there were about
12,000 Jews in the ghetto, crammed into a small area, suffering from
malnutrition and disease. Many of the interned succumbed to disease, cold
weather, hunger, and thirst; dozens of persons died every day. On September 16,
1941, all Jews were deported to Transnistria. The majority of them died in
Transnistria. By 1944 only a few managed to survive. The few dozen families
still alive at the end of the War settled either in Czernovitz or moved to Israel.
Only a handful chose to return to Edineţ.
In 1944, Soviets re-conquered Bessarabia, and re-established Moldavian SSR.
During the Soviet time, the town was also known in the Russified versions Yedintsy
and Yedintzi.
In 1960s, the Jewish population was estimated at about 200. There was no
synagogue although the Jewish Cemetery was still extant.
At the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova became an
independent country
