Romania and the Holocaust

Events – Contexts – Aftermath
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0954-8
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

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 Ia?i 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, context, and aftermath of this under-researched and lesser-known dimension of the Holocaust. 75 years on, this book gives a much-needed impetus to research on the Holocaust in Romania and Romanian-controlled territories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geissbühler, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Simon Geissbühler
Jewish-Communist Gangs in Czernowitz? The Origin and Impact of a Constructed Enemy Stereotype, by Mariana Hausleitner
The Story Created Afterward: Iasi 1941, by Henry L. Eaton
A Village Massacre: The Particular and the Context, by Alti Rodal
Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer of 1941 in Eastern Galicia and Beyond, by Kai Struve
The Pogroms in the Former Soviet Occupation Areas in the Summer of 1941, by Witold Medykowski
The Djurin Ghetto in Transnistria through the Lens of Kunstadt's Diary, by Sarah Rosen
Two-Front Battle: Opposition in the Ghettos of the Mogilev District in Transnistria 1941-44, by Gali Tibon
Challenging Stalinist Justice: A Review of Holocaust Crimes after 1953, by Diana Dumitru
The International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania: A Personal "Behind the Scenes" Perspective, by Tuvia Friling
Public Discourse and Remembrance: Official and Unofficial Narratives, by Michael Shafir
What We Now Know about Romania and the Holocaust-and Why It Matters, by Simon Geissbühler
Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

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.