The Holocaust in Romania

Now in an updated edition that draws on a rich array of newly available sources, this book traces Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish extermination during its World War II fascist regime. Ioanid details the reality of the persecutions and the cruelty and blatant opportunism of the perpetrators.

In this book, Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania’s Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania’s prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten.

Foreword by Dennis Deletant

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction

1 The Legal Status of Jews in Romania

2 The Massacres before the War

3 The Massacres at the Beginning of the War

4 Transit Camps and Ghettos, Deportations, and Other Mass Murders

5 The Massacres in Transnistria

6 Life in Transnistria

7 The Deportation, Persecution, and Extermination of Roma

8 The Survival of the Romanian Jews

9 The Fate of Romanian Jews Living Abroad

10 The Antonescu Government through Its Own Statements

11 Summing Up

Index

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