The History of the Holocaust in Romania

by Ancel, Jean; Murciano, Yaffah; Volovici, Leon; Caloianu, Miriam (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780803220645
• ISBN10: 0803220642
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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 anti-Semitism 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 communityone of the largest in Europe before the warand although its survival rate was the highest in Europe, the survival rate in areas where Jews were liquidated was one of the lowest.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword to the Hebrew Edition	p. xi
Editors' Note	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Goga Government: Europe's Second Antisemitic Government, 28 December 1937-10 February 1938	p. 25
King Carol LPs Dictatorship and Its Policy toward the Jews, February 1938-August 1940	p. 39
The Rhinocerization of the Romanian Intelligentsia	p. 51
The Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Attitude toward the "Jewish Problem"	p. 56
The Nazi Influence on Romanian Political Life and Its Effect on the Situation of the Jews	p. 61
Pogroms and Persecutions in the Summer of 1940	p. 71
The National-Legionary State	p. 89
Romanization	p. 106
Legionary Terror	p. 119
The Confrontation between Antonescu and the Legionnaires and Its Impact on the Situation of the Jews	p. 137
The Legionnaires' Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom, 21-23 January 1941	p. 149
The Jewish Leadership under the National-Legionary Regime	p. 165
The Political and Ideological Foundations of the Antonescu Regime	p. 173
The Government's Attitude toward the Jews	p. 179
Romanization (II)	p. 195
The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution, 1941-42	p. 204
The Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem in Bessarabia and Bukovina, June-July 1941	p. 217
The Camps and Ghettos in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, September-November 1941	p. 233
The Kishinev Ghetto	p. 258
Czernowitz	p. 270
Southern Bukovina	p. 289
The Dorohoi District	p. 298
The National Bank of Romania	p. 306
Transnistria under Romanian Occupation	p. 315
The Arrest and Deportation of Jews in Transnistria	p. 327
"The Kingdom of Death"	p. 334
Odessa	p. 353
The Berezovka District	p. 379
The Typhus Epidemic	p. 395
The Hunt for Residents of Jewish Blood	p. 417
The Romanian Church and the Christianization Campaign	p. 430
The Degradation of Judaism and Jews	p. 436
The Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 1941	p. 445
The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution in the Regat and Southern Transylvania	p. 457
Toward the Implementation of the Final Solution	p. 470
The Postponement of the Nazi Final Solution	p. 486
The Jews of the Regat and Southern Transylvania in the Shadow of the Final Solution	p. 510
Statistical Data on the Holocaust in Romania	p. 535
Notes	p. 563
Bibliography	p. 671
Index	p. 681
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