[2] In 1913, the Bucharest City hall ordered the closure of the cemetery, though this directive was only implemented during the regime of Ion Antonescu.

To avoid the perception of the measure as explicitly anti-Jewish, it was presented as a public health initiative.

Subsequently, in 1942, the cemetery was expropriated, and the Jewish community was compelled to donate the land to the municipality of Bucharest.

Between the summer of 1942 and July 1944, the graves were exhumed by a Jewish forced labor detachment.

[4] The land was sold to an urban development company, but dismantling of the cemetery was halted on August 23, 1944, leaving only 25 graves intact.