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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 antisemitism 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 community-one of the largest in Europe before the war-and although its survival rate was the highest in Europe, the survival rate in areas where Jews were liquidated was one of the lowest.
Jean Ancel (1940-2008) was a Romanian-born Israeli independent historian and a research associate of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Wilhelm Filderman: Memoirs and Diaries, Volume 1, 1900-1940 (Yad Vashem and Tel Aviv University, 2004); The Economic Destruction of Romanian Jewry (Yad Vashem, 2007); and Prelude to Mass Murder: The Pogrom in Iaşi, June 29, 1941 (Yad Vashem, forthcoming).
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780803220645 |
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| Publisher: | Nebraska |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2012 |
| Series: | Comprehensive History of the Holocaust |
| Pages: | 720 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.00(d) |
About the Author
Jean Ancel (1940–2008) was a Romanian-born Israeli independent historian and a research associate of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Wilhelm Filderman: Memoirs and Diaries, Volume 1, 1900–1940 (Yad Vashem and Tel Aviv University, 2004); The Economic Destruction of Romanian Jewry (Yad Vashem, 2007); and Prelude to Mass Murder: The Pogrom in Iaşi, June 29, 1941 (Yad Vashem, forthcoming).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword to the Hebrew Edition xi
Editors' Note xv
Introduction 1
1 The Goga Government: Europe's Second Antisemitic Government, 28 December 1937-10 February 1938 25
2 King Carol LPs Dictatorship and Its Policy toward the Jews, February 1938-August 1940 39
3 The Rhinocerization of the Romanian Intelligentsia 51
4 The Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Attitude toward the "Jewish Problem" 56
5 The Nazi Influence on Romanian Political Life and Its Effect on the Situation of the Jews 61
6 Pogroms and Persecutions in the Summer of 1940 71
7 The National-Legionary State 89
8 Romanization 106
9 Legionary Terror 119
10 The Confrontation between Antonescu and the Legionnaires and Its Impact on the Situation of the Jews 137
11 The Legionnaires' Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom, 21-23 January 1941 149
12 The Jewish Leadership under the National-Legionary Regime 165
13 The Political and Ideological Foundations of the Antonescu Regime 173
14 The Government's Attitude toward the Jews 179
15 Romanization (II) 195
16 The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution, 1941-42 204
17 The Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem in Bessarabia and Bukovina, June-July 1941 217
18 The Camps and Ghettos in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, September-November 1941 233
19 The Kishinev Ghetto 258
20 Czernowitz 270
21 Southern Bukovina 289
22 The Dorohoi District 298
23 The National Bank of Romania 306
24 Transnistria under Romanian Occupation 315
25 The Arrest and Deportation of Jews in Transnistria 327
26 "The Kingdom of Death" 334
27 Odessa 353
28 The Berezovka District 379
29 The Typhus Epidemic 395
30 The Hunt for Residents of Jewish Blood 417
31 The Romanian Church and the Christianization Campaign 430
32 The Degradation of Judaism and Jews 436
33 The Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 1941 445
34 The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution in the Regat and Southern Transylvania 457
35 Toward the Implementation of the Final Solution 470
36 The Postponement of the Nazi Final Solution 486
37 The Jews of the Regat and Southern Transylvania in the Shadow of the Final Solution 510
38 Statistical Data on the Holocaust in Romania 535
Notes 563
Bibliography 671
Index 681