Romania Orders Jews to Wear the Yellow Star

In August 1941, Mihai Antonescu ordered that Jews in Romania wear the yellow star. The International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania records that he gave the order on 5 August 1941, and that the Ministry of the Interior sent it to local police on 7 August. On 3 September, Jews in Bucharest were told to wear a Star of David patch on the left side of the chest.

On 9 September 1941, after Wilhelm Filderman appealed to Marshal Ion Antonescu, the order was revoked. The commission records that the revocation did not fully take effect in some Moldavian towns or in Cernăuți, and that Jews in Transnistria had to wear the star for the rest of the war. In several Moldavian towns, including Iași, Jews had already been forced to wear it after the Iași pogrom.