Iași Pogrom Museum (House of Museums)

The Iași Pogrom Museum is in the House of Museums (Casa Muzeelor), at 6 Strada Vasile Alecsandri in the city centre. The building, a historic monument, was the headquarters of the Iași police (Chestura); after its rehabilitation with EU funds by Iași County Council, it houses several museums of the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Iași, with the Pogrom Museum in the basement. During the Iași Pogrom of 28-30 June 1941, in which more than 13,000 Jews were killed, people rounded up in the city were brought to the police headquarters, and many were then loaded onto the "death trains" bound for Podu Iloaiei and Călărași, on which many deportees died because of the conditions. The museum was organised by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and opened on 29 June 2021, the 80th anniversary of the pogrom. The exhibition rooms display photographs taken during the pogrom, documents, objects, survivors' testimonies and a register of victims. One installation is a hologram of Iancu Țucărman, a survivor of the pogrom. The museum belongs to the network of the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Iași, an institution under Iași County Council. The same building houses the Museum of Jewish Theatre in Romania, the Poetry Museum, the Museum of Romanian Literature and the Museum of Childhood under Communism. The building has the LMI code IS-II-m-B-03704.