Overview
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 Iai 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, 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Simon Geissbühler ,
Diana Dumitru ,
Henry Eaton ,
Tuvia Friling
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.382kg
ISBN: 9783838209241
ISBN 10: 3838209249
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 10 October 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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. -Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine
"""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."" -Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine"
“Other than Germany, Romania was directly responsible for the murder of more Jews than any country during World War II. This transnational collection brings together the findings of leading specialists on this little-known but very important part of the Holocaust.” –Karel C. Berkhoff, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
Author Information
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.
