Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom
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Between 21 and 23 January 1941, a rebellion of the Iron Guard paramilitary organization, whose members were known as Legionnaires, occurred in Bucharest, Romania. As their privileges were being gradually removed by the Conducător Ion Antonescu, the Legionnaires revolted. During the rebellion and subsequent pogrom, the Iron Guard killed 125 Jews, and 30 soldiers died in the confrontation with the rebels. Following this, the Iron Guard movement was banned and 9,000 of its members were imprisoned.
The Sephardic Temple in Bucharest after it was looted and set on fire
The stripped bodies of Jewish Romanian victims, discarded in the snow at Jilava, on the banks of Sabar River.
The stripped bodies of Jewish Romanian victims, discarded in the snow at Jilava forest.
Romanian members of the Iron Guard, arrested by the Army after the Bucharest pogrom and anti-government rebellion.
Iron Guard
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The Iron Guard was a Romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as the Legion of the Archangel Michael or the Legionary Movement. It was strongly anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-communist, and anti-Semitic. It differed from other European right-wing movements of the period due to its spiritual basis, as the Iron Guard was deeply imbued with Romanian Orthodox Christian mysticism.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the founder of the Iron Guard
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and Iron Guard members in 1937
1940 stamp bearing the symbol of the "Iron Guard" over a white cross that stood for one of its humanitarian ventures
The "Monument of the anti-Communist fighters" in Deva, commemorating a member of the Iron Guard (Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu)