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The Iași pogrom was a series of pogroms launched by governmental forces under Marshal Ion Antonescu in the Romanian city of Iași against its Jewish community, which lasted from 29 June to 6 July 1941. According to Romanian authorities over 13,266 people,or one third of the Jewish population, were massacred in the pogrom itself or in its aftermath, and many were deported. It was one of the worst pogroms during World War II.
The killings took place in several locations and were carried out in various methods.
A main killing place was the police headquarters (the Chestură) building in central Iași, where a large number of Jews were rounded up, beaten to death and shot.
Survivers of this massacre were marched to the central train station and were loaded on cattle vagons. The trains headed to random destinations and moved very slowly. Many people died from suffocation or dehydration. The trains stopped in several stations along the way (Podu Iloaiei, Târgu Frumos, Roman, Ialomița) and in each stop many bodies were unloaded from the train. The bodies were buried in mass graves in the Jewish cemetery of these locations.
Alongside with these event, "traditional" methods were also used, like killing Jews in their homes and in the streets. Most of the dead in the city are buried in a mass grave in the Păcurari Jewish cemetery in Iași.