It is composed of nine villages: Cârlig, Cotu Morii, Cuza Vodă, Moimești, Popricani, Rediu Mitropoliei, Țipilești, Vânători, and 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 Iași pogrom.

[2][3][4] It is the first such grave found in Romania since the 1945 discovery of 311 bodies at Stânca-Roznovanu, also in the vicinity of Iași.

[5][6] An official report concluded that the grave contained 36 victims, and that those responsible for the killing had already been sentenced in 1948.

[7] The village of Popricani was featured in the 1953 memoir Mayn tatns khretshme ("My Father's Tavern") by Yiddish writer Yitskhok Horowitz.