Were there any concentration camps in Romania during WW2?

Question

Just asking. Please be honest with me, and put a source if you can!

Answer 1

During 1941-1944 there were concentration and transit camps for Jews in Romanian controlled areas, most of them in the area known as Transnistria ( now part of Ukraine).
There was also a pseudo-concentration camp for Communists and other regime opponents in Targu-Jiu, on the present day territory of Romania, but its regime wasn't very harsh.
After Romania switched sides in 1944, there were a few camps were fascists were detained, such as the one in Feldioara.

Answer 2

"......half of the 320,000 Jews living in Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Dorohoi district in Romania were murdered within months of the entry of the country into the war during 1941. Even after the initial killing, Jews in Moldavia, Bukovina and Bessarabia were subject to frequent pogroms, and were concentrated into ghettos from which they were sent to concentration camps, including camps built and run by Romanians. The number of deaths in this area is not certain, but even the lowest respectable estimates run to about 250,000 Jews (and 25,000 Roma) in these eastern regions, while 120,000 of Transylvania's 150,000 Jews died at the hands of the Hungarians later in the war. Romanian soldiers also worked with the Einsatzkommando, German killing squads, to massacre Jews in conquered territories. Romanian troops were in large part responsible for the Odessa massacre, in which over 100,000 Jews were shot during the autumn of 1941. Despite the survival of a majority of the Jews living in Romania proper, the report commissioned and accepted by the Romanian government in 2004 on the Holocaust concluded:

'Of all the allies of Nazi Germany, Romania bears responsibility for the deaths of more Jews than any country other than Germany itself. The murders committed in Iasi, Odessa, Bogdanovka, Domanovka, and Peciora, for example, were among the most hideous murders committed against Jews anywhere during the Holocaust. Romania committed genocide against the Jews. The survival of Jews in some parts of the country does not alter this reality.' "

Answer 3

Assuming you mean extermination camps, actually not.

Four of the five extermination camps were in Poland, one in the Ukraine.

Nonetheless, there is no denying that the Romanian Government assisted the Nazis in every way possible.

If there is any credit in this horrid war it belongs to Hungary and Italy, neither of which would turn its Jewish citizens over to Germany until it was occupied by German troops, or to a tiny place like Danmark, which smuggled all of its Jews at night into neutral Sweden.

Answer 4

If you search "romanian concentration camps" you will find that there were two. Pechora and Vapniarka in Transnistria.