Ka kammala wannan magana: A watan Yuni na shekara ta 1940, kusan shekara guda da soma Yaƙin Duniya na biyu,
mamayar Bessarabia. Wannan ya zama abin mamaki a Romania, inda wani tsarin da aka tsara ya dauki nauyin, tare da Ion Antonescu a cikin jirgin. A cikin watanni masu zuwa, mulkin, wanda ya gaji kuma ya aiwatar da dokokin anti-Semitic da aka zartar a ƙarshen 1930s, ya gina ka'idar makirci, yana zargin yahudawa da mamayar Soviet da kuma ayyukan ta'addanci. Shugabannin al'umma kamar Horia Carp da Wilhelm Filderman sun karyata zargin nan da nan, amma, kamar yadda masanin tarihi Dennis Deletant ya rubuta, "waɗannan bayanan [...] ba su da tasiri sosai ga jami'ai da mazajen sojojin Romania na 1940. Dukan hujja ta anti-Semitic ta dogara ne akan ƙin yarda da waɗannan hujjoji". Dangane da shaidar da Landau ya bayar daga baya, wasu daga cikin 'yan uwansa Yahudawa na Chișinău, wataƙila sun haɗa da danginsa, an tura su zuwa Gulag a ƙarƙashin mulkin Soviet.