Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust; studii şi cercetări
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (2011) 36-57
Keywords:
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Notes that the presence of Jews as a special category in legislation is an indicator of antisemitism, overt or covert, in Romanian policy. Examines this presence during three periods. In the first period, 1938-44, state legislation treated the Jews as enemies of the nation. Notes that although anti-Jewish laws of this time are not tantamount to genocide, they paved way for the Holocaust in Romania in 1941-44. In the period of 1944-89, the state treated the Jews as victims. It lifted old legal limitations against them; recovered the memory of the Holocaust, albeit in a distorted form; and attempted to compensate some of the victims. In the post-communist period, from 1989 on, the state has made efforts to recover a more authentic history of the Holocaust in the country and to put an end to the ongoing cult of Antonescu. It has fought legally against antisemitism and extremist forms of Holocaust denial, as manifested in the slogan put forward by the rightist leader Ion Coja: "In Romania there was no Holocaust".
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