Overview

"In 1930, 757,000 Jews lived in Romania; they constituted the third largest Jewish community in Europe. Today not more than 14,000 Jews live in Romania, most of them elderly. The record of the Holocaust in Romania includes many curious chapters of support and betrayal, but they have been largely unavailable until now. Radu Ioanid’s account based upon privileged access to secret East European government archives, is an unprecedented analysis of heretofore purposely hidden materials. Archival records, published and unpublished reports, memoirs of survivors, letters—Mr. Ioanid uses all these elements to build an accurate perspective on Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish extermination during the regime of Ion Antonescu. The publication of The Holocaust in Romania is timely as well as important, for there is now in Romania a growing effort to deny the government’s role in the tragedy. Mr. Ioanid sheds light on the reality of the persecutions, the cruelty of the perpetrators, their blatant opportunism and endless cynicism. The story is one of destruction and survival; of German dissatisfaction with Romanian ad hoc violence; of an elusive national policy and the strategies of Romanian authorities that allowed 300,000 Romanian Jews to survive the war. ""Invaluable...monumental...no comparable work in any language has documented this important history with the thoroughness, skill, and analytical sophistication this book demonstrates.”—Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With 8 pages of photographs."

Full Product Details

9781566637718

Table of Contents

Reviews

Mr. Ioanid recounts in chilling detail the savage persecution of the Jews...an especially timely book.--Tom Gross The Wall Street Journal

Excellent...interesting and creative. CHOICE Careful and informative. The New York Review Of Books Mr. Ioanid recounts in chilling detail the savage persecution of the Jews...an especially timely book. -- Tom Gross The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Ioanid recounts in chilling detail the savage persecution of the Jews...an especially timely book.--Tom Gross Wall Street Journal

Author Information

Radu Ioanid was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania. He is now director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Mr. Ioanid’s other books include The Sword of the Archangel: Fascist Ideology in Romania. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available