 Surviving Jews were quickly gathered in temporary ghettos and 154,449 to 170,737 were then deported to Transnistria; only 49,927 of them were still alive by September 16, 1943.Only 19,475 Jews of Bukovina and of Dorohoi County survived in these territories during 1941–1944 without being deported, most of them in Cernăuți.Romanian gendarmerie units also participated, along German troops and local militias, in the destruction of the Jewish community in Transnistria, by murdering between 115,000 and 180,000 local Jews.