Transnistria is an artificial geographic term, created during World War II, to refer to the part of the Ukraine concquered by German and Romanian troops in the summer of 1941. Before the war, 300,000 Jews lived in the area, but many were killed by Einsatzgruppen after the German invasion. Between September 15, 1941 and October 13, 1942, more than 150,000 Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina, Moldavia, and Romania were deported to forced labor camps in Transnistria.

ID: A map depicting Romania and Transnistria with three lines showing the boundaries of Romania in different years. A key to the left is titled “Romania: 1941–1942” and shows a thick black line labeled “1933 boundary,” a dotted line labeled “1941 boundary,” and a dashed line labeled “1942 boundary,” corresponding to different lines on the map.