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A region in the southern Ukraine, between the Dniester River in the west and the Bug River in the East, the Black Sea in the south, and a line beyond Mogilev-Podolski in the north. The designation "Transnistria" is of artificial origin (literally means "beyond Dniester"). This term came into being in conjunction with German-Romanian occupation of the southern portion of Ukraine (USSR) in the summer of 1941. Hitler gave this region to Romania as a reward for its participation in the war against the Soviet Union. From August 1941to March 1944 Transnistria was under the control of the Romanian military and civil administration. Proclaimed as a regained Romanian province, Transnistria became a penal colony for Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia. The local Jewish population was partially exterminated and those who survived were put into ghettos and camps. Deportees from Romania were incarcerated there in ghettos, camps, and colonies. The latter were distinguishable in their organizational structure, and out-numbered ghettos and camps. The conditions under Romanian occupation in Transnistria varied from extremely harsh in camps and some colonies to relatively bearable in most of the ghettos. (en-US)

Fonte

Shechtman, Joseph B. "The Transnistrian Reservation." YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science, Vol. 7. New York: 1953.

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• regioni in URSS