Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,3 (1996) 211-251
Keywords:
Carmilly, Moshe
;
Sorban, Raoul
;
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Examines the cases of Rabbi Dr. Moses Carmilly-Weinberger and of the non-Jew Dr. Raoul Şorban, who, due to their vested interests, invented a falsified history of the rescue of Transylvanian Jews in Romania, to the great satisfaction of nationalists in both the communist and post-communist periods who were eager to revise the history of Romania's complicity in the Holocaust. Carmilly-Weinberger was interested in an account which would excuse his own behavior during the Holocaust, and Şorban - in material reward as an alleged rescuer of Jews (in 1986 he was indeed awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem). Acting together, they aggrandized their roles and the role of the wartime Romanian authorities in the rescue of Transylvanian Jews. At the same time, they silenced and even denied the mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the Romanians, and contrasted Romanian humanism with Hungarian barbarism. Concludes that the campaign for recognition of Righteous Gentiles in an East Central Europe headed by nationalist regimes eager to whitewash their national history may lead to revisionism.
Note:
Reprinted in his "Studies on the Holocaust" II (2001). A revised version appeared in "Jewish Studies at the Central European University" 1 [1996-1999] (2000) 11-26.
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Appeared in Hungarian as "Román nacionalisták és a holokauszt" in his collected articles "A Holokauszt Tinódija" (2014) 88-99.
DOI:
10.1093/hgs/10.3.211
URL:
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