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Popricani — Commune — 
PopricaniCoordinates: 47°18′N 27°31′E / 47.3°N 27.517°E Country 
RomaniaCounty Iaşi County Population (2002)[1] 6,735 Time zone EET (UTC+2) – Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3) Popricani is a commune in Iaşi County, Romania, part of the Iaşi metropolitan area. It is composed of nine villages: Cârlig, Cotu Morii, Cuza Vodă, Moimeşti, Popricani, Rediu Mitropoliei, Ţipileşti, Vânători and Vulturi.
Mass grave
In November 2010, a mass grave dating from 1941 was discovered in the nearby forest of Vulturi. It is believed to contain the remains of up to a hundred Jewish men, women and children murdered by Romanian authorities contemporaneously with the nearby Iaşi pogrom.[2][3][4] It is the first such grave found in Romania since the 1945 discovery of 311 bodies at Stanca Roznovanu, also in the vicinity of Iaşi.[5][6]
References
- ^ Romanian census data, 2002; retrieved on March 1, 2010
- ^ "'Holocaust grave' discovered in Romania". BBC News. 5 November 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11703567. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ "Holocaust-era mass grave discovered". The Press Association (UK). http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5i3KwYPbiSWhnhgkPJf_blx666Ngw?docId=N0182611288960976903A. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ "Descoperire istorică la Iaşi" (in Romanian). TVR. 5 November 2010. http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=91819&c=4765. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ Marinas, Radu (Fri Nov 5, 2010). "World War Two mass grave of Jews found in Romania". Reuters Africa. p. 2. http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6A41WX20101105?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ Braham, Randolph L. (1997). The destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews during the Antonescu era. Holocaust studies series East European monographs. Social Science Monographs. p. 73. ISBN 9780880333801. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ONptAAAAMAAJ&q=Stanca+Roznovanu&dq=Stanca+Roznovanu&hl=en&ei=FTnVTMfmGM-bhQeS5IiyBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA.
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