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 Ia?i 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, more than 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, context, and aftermath of this under-researched and lesser-known dimension of the Holocaust. 75 years on, this book gives a much-needed impetus to research on the Holocaust in Romania and Romanian-controlled territories.
Price: $88.00
Pages: 340
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Publication Date:
08 November 2016
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838209845
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
We desperately need to know more about the Holocaust in Romania and the territories occupied and administered by Romanians during World War II. For too long this subject has not gotten the prominence it deserves. This volume gathers together many of the best scholars on the subject and promises to yield important new knowledge and insights.
Simon Geissbühler is a Swiss historian, political scientist, and diplomat. He has published extensively on Romania and the Holocaust, Eastern European Jewish history, and Jewish heritage.
Introduction, by Simon Geissbühler
Jewish-Communist Gangs in Czernowitz? The Origin and Impact of a Constructed Enemy Stereotype, by Mariana Hausleitner
The Story Created Afterward: Iasi 1941, by Henry L. Eaton
A Village Massacre: The Particular and the Context, by Alti Rodal
Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer of 1941 in Eastern Galicia and Beyond, by Kai Struve
The Pogroms in the Former Soviet Occupation Areas in the Summer of 1941, by Witold Medykowski
The Djurin Ghetto in Transnistria through the Lens of Kunstadt's Diary, by Sarah Rosen
Two-Front Battle: Opposition in the Ghettos of the Mogilev District in Transnistria 1941-44, by Gali Tibon
Challenging Stalinist Justice: A Review of Holocaust Crimes after 1953, by Diana Dumitru
The International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania: A Personal "Behind the Scenes" Perspective, by Tuvia Friling
Public Discourse and Remembrance: Official and Unofficial Narratives, by Michael Shafir
What We Now Know about Romania and the Holocaust-and Why It Matters, by Simon Geissbühler
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