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The Holocaust in Romania
The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944
The Holocaust in Romania
The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944
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Description
In 1930, 757,000 Jews lived in Romania; they constituted the third largest Jewish community in Europe. Today not more than 14,000 Jews live in Romania, most of them elderly. The record of the Holocaust in Romania includes many curious chapters of support and betrayal, but they have been largely unavailable until now. Radu Ioanid's account based upon privileged access to secret East European government archives, is an unprecedented analysis of heretofore purposely hidden materials. Archival records, published and unpublished reports, memoirs of survivors, letters-Mr. Ioanid uses all these elements to build an accurate perspective on Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish extermination during the regime of Ion Antonescu. The publication of The Holocaust in Romania is timely as well as important, for there is now in Romania a growing effort to deny the government's role in the tragedy. Mr. Ioanid sheds light on the reality of the persecutions, the cruelty of the perpetrators, their blatant opportunism and endless cynicism. The story is one of destruction and survival; of German dissatisfaction with Romanian ad hoc violence; of an elusive national policy and the strategies of Romanian authorities that allowed 300,000 Romanian Jews to survive the war. "Invaluable...monumental...no comparable work in any language has documented this important history with the thoroughness, skill, and analytical sophistication this book demonstrates.”-Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With 8 pages of photographs.
Product details
Published | Feb 18 2008 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 380 |
ISBN | 9781566637718 |
Imprint | Ivan R. Dee |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Excellent...interesting and creative.
Choice Reviews
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Careful and informative.
New York Review of Books
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Mr. Ioanid recounts in chilling detail the savage persecution of the Jews...an especially timely book.
Tom Gross, The Wall Street Journal
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Radu Ioanid has capitalized on his unique, decades-long experience collecting archives worldwide on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and building the museum’s collections of survivor testimony to produce the most authoritative study of the Holocaust in Romania available today. The responsibility of Romania’s violently antisemitic Antonescu regime and the complicity or indifference of most Romanian elites and the broader public emerge with a clarity that is often absent in studies of the Holocaust elsewhere. The agony of the victims is powerfully presented, in their own words as well as in reports generated by military and civilian authorities seeking to document their contributions to a national priority. Ioanid’s attention to the victimization of Roma, minority religious sects, and other groups completes the frightful picture Romania’s Holocaust-era crimes and serves as warning that if we fail to learn from history, what happened to Jews during the Holocaust can happen to anyone.
Paul A. Shapiro, author of The Kishinev Ghetto 1941–1942: A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands and member of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (2003–2004)