Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Antisemitism International
Angaben zur Quelle:
3-4 (2006) 103-111
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Relates the ambiguous political circumstances that led the Romanian government to establish in 2003 an international commission headed by Elie Wiesel to analyze the history of the Holocaust in Romania. The final report, issued in November 2004, concluded that Romanian authorities were the main perpetrators of war crimes in some locations and accomplices in others where Germans or Hungarians were the perpetrators. Overall, the Antonescu regime was responsible for the deaths of almost half of Romanian Jewry, estimated at 280-300,000. Some critics of the report see it as the product of an anti-Romanian Jewish plot. Among the fiercest antisemitic critics is Paul Goma, who considers the mass murder of Jews in Bessarabia to have been a justified response to the "Jewish role" in Sovietizing Romania. Volovici rejects the contention that the antisemitism of the Holocaust period was discontinuous with Romanian tradition and was an import from Nazi Germany. The establishment of a National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, and of a Holocaust Commemoration Day, were two direct results of the report. Notes positive developments in the writing and teaching of Holocaust history in Romania. Romanian society is just beginning to deal with its past.
Note:
On the report of the Romanian commission appointed in 2003 to investigate events in Romania between 1937-45 relating to the Jews.
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