The Monument to the Victims of the Iași Pogrom (Monumentul Victimelor Pogromului de la Iași) is a memorial obelisk standing in front of the Great Synagogue in Iași. It commemorates the more than 13,000 Jews murdered during the pogrom of June 1941, when Romanian military and police forces, assisted by other participants, carried out mass killings across the city and deported thousands of Jewish residents aboard overcrowded death trains.
The first monument was erected in 1976 as a modest obelisk bearing an inscription dedicated to the victims of the pogrom of June 28-29, 1941. It stood in the small square outside the synagogue, one of the few surviving buildings of the former Jewish quarter.
For the 70th anniversary of the pogrom, the memorial was reconstructed as a larger black-marble obelisk and unveiled on June 28, 2011. Its inscriptions include a dedication in Romanian, English, and Yiddish remembering the victims and identifying the responsibility of Ion Antonescu’s regime. A menorah, the seven-branched Jewish ceremonial lampstand, appears on another face of the monument.
The surrounding square was named Romanian–Israeli Friendship Square (Piața Prieteniei Româno-Israeliene) in 2015, giving the memorial and the Great Synagogue a shared commemorative setting. Visitors interested in learning more about the events of June 1941 can visit the Iași Pogrom Museum, located in the House of Museums.
