 54 Communists were taken to a prison in Rîbniţa, Transnistria, where they were killed in their cells by SS men on March 19, 1944.A third group, which included most of the prisoners (565 persons), was moved to Romania in March 1944 and imprisoned in the camp for political prisoners in Târgu Jiu, until after the fall of the Antonescu government in August ("see King Michael Coup").Many of the former prisoners in Vapniarka were appointed to senior posts in Communist Romania, among them Simion Bughici (who became Foreign Minister).