there were pogroms in the city of iasi. the homes for the jewish minority in iasi were marked with crosses. on june 27, 1941, ion antonescu make a phone call with the city's mayor and antonescu said into the phone: "clean the city iasi from the jews." and the holocaust in romania has began. police officers and many civilians went to every jewish home marked with a cross in the town and murdered thousands of jews on the same day.