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How is the Holocaust remembered in Romania since the fall of
communism? Alexandru Florian and an international group of
contributors unveil how and why Romania, a place where large
segments of the Jewish and Roma populations perished, still fails
to address its recent past. These essays focus on the roles of
government and public actors that choose to promote, construct,
defend, or contest the memory of the Holocaust, as well as the
tools—the press, the media, monuments, and commemorations—that
create public memory. Coming from a variety of perspectives, these
essays provide a compelling view of what memories exist, how they
are sustained, how they can be distorted, and how public
remembrance of the Holocaust can be encouraged in Romanian society
today.
From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own
initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it
controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city
of Iasi killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern
Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed forces and local people,
large-scale deportations of Jews to the camps and ghettos of
Transnistria, and massacres in and around Odessa. Overall, over
300,000 Jews of Romanian and Soviet or Ukrainian origin were
murdered in Romanian- controlled territories during the Second
World War. In this volume, a number of renowned experts shed light
on the events, the contexts, and the aftermath of this
under-researched and lesser-known dimension of the Holocaust. 75
years on, this book gives much-needed impetus to research on the
Holocaust in Romania and Romanian-controlled territories.
How is the Holocaust remembered in Romania since the fall of
communism? Alexandru Florian and an international group of
contributors unveil how and why Romania, a place where large
segments of the Jewish and Roma populations perished, still fails
to address its recent past. These essays focus on the roles of
government and public actors that choose to promote, construct,
defend, or contest the memory of the Holocaust, as well as the
tools-the press, the media, monuments, and commemorations-that
create public memory. Coming from a variety of perspectives, these
essays provide a compelling view of what memories exist, how they
are sustained, how they can be distorted, and how public
remembrance of the Holocaust can be encouraged in Romanian society
today.
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