Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies at the Central European University
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (2007-2009) 21-38
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
The return of the Romanian forces in summer 1941 to the province of Bessarabia, which had been occuped by the Soviets a year earlier, was accompanied by pogroms, the robbing of Jewish property, and the murder of many Jews by the Bessarabian (mainly Moldovan) peasants, their neighbors. Challenging the popular view that this anti-Jewish violence was a significant break from previous behavior, points to the continuity between interwar state-sponsored antisemitism in Romania and the pogroms of summer 1941. Bessarabia proved to be particularly sensitive to the messages of right-wing parties, especially to those of the extreme right National Christian Defense League (LANC), and to a lesser extent to the fascist Iron Guard. The aggressive rightist propaganda in Bessarabia, the reluctance of the state agencies to suppress it, and, on the contrary, suppression of anti-fascist protests by the police had their effect: in the late 1930s anti-Jewish violence began in Bessarabia. This non-state violence reached its peak under the returning Romanian Army in June 1941.
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