This lecture is part of the Socialist Studies Seminar.
As Soviet forces returned to Bessarabia in 1944, many Holocaust perpetrators sought to evade postwar accountability through flight, concealment, or crossing the Romanian border. This paper follows forty perpetrators implicated in the July 1941 massacre of over 300 Jews in a Bessarabian village, who were split between Romanian and Soviet jurisdictions by the postwar border. What determined whether evasion succeeded: citizenship, mobility, local ties, or the structures of the pursuing states? One crime, one cohort, divided by a single border. What accounted for their radically different fates?
Co-sponsored by the Department of History (Carnegie Mellon University) and REEES, the World History Center, and the Jewish Studies Program (University of Pittsburgh).