Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,1 (2008) 49-73
Keywords:
Jews Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
During the 1990s, under non-communist governments, the historiography of independent Moldova paid little attention to the Holocaust. Since the Communist Party's return to power in 2001 the state has begun to relate to Holocaust history, memorialization, and teaching, but most Moldovan historians refuse to endorse their government's new interest in the Holocaust. Focuses on historical works written in Moldova in 2000-06, noting that many nationalist and pro-Romanian historians minimize the crimes of the Antonescu regime in Bessarabia, Transnistria, and Bukovina, and some other historians tend to trivialize the Holocaust. This neglect of the Holocaust stems from the unclear ethnic-national status of the Moldovan people, as well as from the perception of the ambiguity of the Moldovan situation during World War II. Moldovans were victims of both the Soviet and Romanian occupations, and thus cannot be held responsible for the crimes of either regime.
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