Interior of a ruined synagogue, Bucharest, Romania, January 23, 1941. Legionnaires, as members of the Iron Guard were called, consisted of anti-Semitic students, priests, intellectuals, young and old, men, women, and children. Legionary gangs swooped down on Bucharest’s Jewish districts to grab whatever they could carry away before vandalizing and setting fire to twenty-five synagogues, demolishing Jewish-owned stores, and plundering the homes of Jews. Signs posted on Jewish homes read 'Kikes live here!' Homes of Christians displayed religious symbols, icons, or signs reading 'Christians live here.'
