The concentration camp was established on the gated grounds of what had once been a private estate of the Polish noble Potocki family on the banks of the Southern Bug river, which had been converted into a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients after the Russian revolution.
Also, many hundreds of prisoners were violently deported further east across the Bug river to work at DG-IV slave labor camps in German-occupied Ukraine, where almost none would survive.
[5] Historians and researchers including Matatias Carp and Radu Ioanid consider Pechora to be the most infamous of all the sites established in Romanian-occupied Ukraine.
[9] According to survivor testimony, Stratulat prevented a group of SS-affiliated ethnic Germans (belonging to the Sonderkommando Russland) from liquidating the camp's population sometime in the late summer of 1942.
[10][1] Generally speaking, locals in the Romanian-occupied zone of Transnistria treated Jews much more favorably than did residents of other neighboring regions such as western Ukraine and Bessarabia, where pogroms were widespread.
[17] In the 1950s, many of the convicted ethnic Ukrainian collaborators—against whom some survivors had testified—were released early from Soviet labor camps and returned to the communities in which they had served during the war.
[19][15] Preeminent Yiddish-language writer Boris Sandler has also centered the Pechora camp and the Holocaust in Romania in his works, including the novella collection Red Shoes for Rachel.
[22] Anna Shternshis, "People Fell Like Flies: How Yiddish songs document history and collective action during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union"