Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Nationalities Papers
Angaben zur Quelle:
30,3 (2002) 435-457
Keywords:
Jews Historiography
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
In the early 1990s, when the Moldavian SSR became the independent Republic of Moldova, the communist master narrative of the history of Bessarabia gave way to the nationalist narrative. The Holocaust of Bessarabian and Transnistrian Jews did not fit in with either of these narratives. Soviet historians had tended to ignore the Holocaust, because any suggestion of unequal treatment of different ethnic groups by the Romanian authorities did not fit the myth of Soviet "liberation" of Bessarabia in 1940. Moreover, they ignored the fact that Jews played a role in Bessarabian history. Nationalist historians of the post-Soviet period assess the Antonescu regime positively. They claim that the Jews themselves were responsible for the rise of the extreme-right in interwar Romania and Bessarabia, and for the deportations to Transnistria in 1941. The Jews are depicted as a unanimously pro-Soviet force. Dwells on the book by Anatol Petrencu, "Basarabia în al doilea război mondial, 1940-1944" ["Bessarabia in the Second World War, 1940-1944"] (1997), which borders on Holocaust denial. School textbooks continue to ignore the Holocaust or write half-truths on this event in Bessarabia.
DOI:
10.1080/0090599022000011705
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