11 November 2004
Today, at 5:00 p.m. members of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania presented its final report to Romanian President Ion Iliescu at a special ceremony in the Presidential Palace in Bucharest. Nobel Prize laureate and Vice Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Professor Elie Wiesel chairs the Commission. The 400-page report details the history of the Holocaust in Romania as well as the Commission’s conclusions and recommendations on how the government can foster Holocaust awareness, remembrance, and education in Romania.
Yad Vashem has been involved in the Commission’s work since its establishment in 2003. Yad Vashem’s public support of the Commission also included putting its research at the Commission’s disposal and hosting the Commission at Yad Vashem in September, when the report was finalized.
Chairman of the Directorate Avner Shalev welcomed the Commission’s report.
“This is an important step in Romania’s confrontation with its past, and I hope that the Commission’s conclusions will lead to more awareness among Romanian society of the Holocaust in Romania. It is important to stress that the Commission’s work represents only a starting point in an important and meaningful process whereby the Commission’s recommendations will be implemented.”
Yad Vashem, through the International School for Holocaust Studies, offers the knowledge, expertise and pedagogical tools that it has developed to widen and professionalize Holocaust education in Romania. Following the visit of Romanian Minister of Education Alexandru Athanasiu this March to Yad Vashem, a seminar for Romanian educators was held at the International School this fall. “We hope that the cooperation with Romania in the field of Holocaust education will continue and expand as the Commission’s recommendations are implemented,” said Shalev.
Full Report in English
Table of Contents
Foreword
Speech given by Ion Iliescu - October 12, 2004
Message of Elie Wiesel
Ch.1 - Roots of Romanian Antisemitism
Ch.2 - Romanian-German Relations before and during the Holocaust
Ch.3 - The 1940 Romanian withdrawal from Bessarabia and N. Bukovia
Ch.4 - Antisemitic Propaganda and Official Rhetoric
Ch.5 - The Holocaust in Romania
Ch.6 - Exclusion of Jews from Romanian Society
Ch.7 - Life of the Jewish Community under Antonescu
Ch.8 - The Deportation of the Roma and Their Treatment in Transnistria
Ch.9 - The Role of Antonescu in the Antisemitic and Anti-Roma Policies
Ch.10 - The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania
Ch.11 - Solidarity and Rescue
Ch.12 - Trials of War Criminals
Ch.13 - Distortion Negationism and Minimalization
FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Full Report in Romanian
SUMAR
Cuvant inainte revazut
Alocutiunea Presedintelui Romaniei - Ion Iliescu - 12 octombrie 2004
Mesajul Presedintelui CISHR Elie Wiesel
Ch. 1 - Fundalul şi precursorii Holocaustului - Rădăcini ale antisemitismului românesc
Ch. 2 - Relaţiile româno-germane - înaintea şi în timpul Holocaustului
Ch. 3 - Retragerea din Basarabia şi Bucovina de Nord în iunie-iulie 1940 şi consecinţele ei asupra relaţiilor interetnice în România
Ch. 4 - Propaganda antisemită si retorica oficială despre primejdia iudeo-bolşevismului. Evreii români şi comunismul în perioada 1938-1944
Ch. 5 - Holocaustul în România
Ch. 6 - Procesul de excludere a evreilor din societatea românească în timpul guvernelor lui ion antonescu cu şi fără legionari: legislaţia antisemită, românizarea şi exproprierea
Ch. 7 - Viata comunitatilor evreiesti in timpul lui Ion Antonescu şi raspunsul lor la Holocaustul din România
Ch. 8 - Deportarea romilor şi tratamentul lor în Transnistria
Ch. 9 - Rolul lui Ion Antonescu în planificarea şi implementarea politicilor antisemite şi anti-rome ale statului român
Ch. 10 - Holocaustul în Transilvania de Nord
Ch. 11 - Solidaritate şi salvare - Români printre „Cei Drepţi Între Popoare”
Ch. 12 - Procesul criminalilor de război
Ch. 13 - Distorsionarea, negarea şi minimalizarea Holocaustului în România postbelică
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