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The History of the Holocaust in Romania
The History of the Holocaust in Romania
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Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Based on an unparalleled and exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Romania.
The Romanians, and other nations inside and outside the Balkans, related differently to "their Jews" and "other Jews," that is, those living in districts annexed to Romania after the First World War and in areas occupied and annexed to the Romanian military administration after the Soviet invasion in June 1941. The Jews of the Regat, the core Romanian principality, suffered pogroms, decrees, and degradation, but on the whole they survived the Holocaust.
Contradicting long-held assumptions, Ancel shows that Romanians were largely responsible for murdering their Jewish community--one of the largest in Europe before the war--and although its survival rate was the highest in Europe, the survival rate in areas where Jews were liquidated was one of the lowest.
Author: Jean Ancel
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.68lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.50w x 2.02d
ISBN: 9780803220645
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2012
Based on an unparalleled and exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Romania.
The Romanians, and other nations inside and outside the Balkans, related differently to "their Jews" and "other Jews," that is, those living in districts annexed to Romania after the First World War and in areas occupied and annexed to the Romanian military administration after the Soviet invasion in June 1941. The Jews of the Regat, the core Romanian principality, suffered pogroms, decrees, and degradation, but on the whole they survived the Holocaust.
Contradicting long-held assumptions, Ancel shows that Romanians were largely responsible for murdering their Jewish community--one of the largest in Europe before the war--and although its survival rate was the highest in Europe, the survival rate in areas where Jews were liquidated was one of the lowest.
Author: Jean Ancel
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.68lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.50w x 2.02d
ISBN: 9780803220645
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2012
About the Author
Jean Ancel (1940-2008) was a Romanian-born Israeli independent historian and a research associate of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Wilhelm Filderman: Memoirs and Diaries, Volume 1, 1900-1940 (Yad Vashem and Tel Aviv University, 2004); The Economic Destruction of Romanian Jewry (Yad Vashem, 2007); and Prelude to Mass Murder: The Pogrom in Iaşi, June 29, 1941 (Yad Vashem, forthcoming).
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