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Great Synagogue (1671)
October 5, 2023, 12:59 pm
OPINION: Revealing and confronting Romania’s murderous past
Romania’s deeply disturbing past, 80-odd years on, continues to bubble up to the surface, as the country does its best to face up to its role in the Holocaust.
By Jenni Frazer
Bucharest, Romania - November 03, 2022.
January 4, 2023, 12:38 pm
Romanian city council votes down plan to remove bust of pro-Nazi government official
Far-right party claims efforts to dismantle the monument are an attempt to destroy national cult of heroes and martyrs.
By Marcel Gascón Barberá - JTA
Bucharest, Romania - November 03, 2022.
November 16, 2022, 9:05 am
Romania passes ‘landmark law’ guaranteeing the right to kosher slaughter
Religious slaughter is illegal in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Slovenia and parts of Belgium.
By Marcel Gascón Barberá - JTA
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (Wikipedia)
February 6, 2022, 5:23 pm
Romanian political figure praises antisemitic fascist leader on primetime TV
Calin Georgescu, a sustainability expert formerly affiliated with the United Nations, said Corneliu Zelea Codreanu “fought for the morality of the human being.”
By JTA
Claudiu Tarziu is a leader of the Romanian AUR party. (Screenshot from YouTube)
January 10, 2022, 3:19 pm
Right-wing Romanian party calls Shoah education ‘minor topic,’ drawing sharp rebuke
Alliance for the Union of Romanians says the government was 'relegating fundamental subjects' in favour of 'sexual education and history of the Holocaust'
By JTA
July 19, 2021, 12:22 pm
Romania’s rare Shoah tribute for city of Iași
Country's prime minister remembers thousands of Jews killed in a 1941 pogrom
Vera Atkins and Charlotte Gainsbourg
March 12, 2021, 1:13 pm
Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in real-life Jewish espionage thriller
Based on Sarah Helm’s A Life In Secrets, the film explores the real-life story of Vera Atkins, who made it her mission to discover the fate of missing agents between 1941 and 1945.
By Francine Wolfisz
A Counter-Terrorism Battalion of the SRI on parade in 2008. (Wikipedia/Source http://www.mapn.ro/fotodb/20061129_1/Detasamentul_Brigazii_Antiteroriste Author MAPN/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))
February 20, 2021, 3:46 pm
Ex intelligence officer convicted in first use of Romania’s Shoah denial law
Former colonel Vasile Zarnescu described the Holocaust as a 'fraud' and is the first to be subject to the 2020 decree
By JTA
Jewish State Theatre
October 30, 2020, 7:19 pm
All-female production of Holocaust memoirs
The Beautiful Days of My Youth includes Holocaust survivor Ana Novac's memoirs of Auschwitz and Plaszow following the deportations of 290,000 Romanian Jews and Roma in 1941
By Jewish News Reporter
Picture of the newly-discovered gravesite. (Credit: Dan Acostioaiei via Adrian Cioflâncă on Facebook.)
October 14, 2020, 12:32 pm
Heavy rain exposes remains from Romanian Jewish cemetery destroyed by fascists
Cave at Tatarasi Park in Iasi was revealed by downpour, near the site where Nazi collaborators stole headstones to use for building material
By JTA
Lord Carlile, Dame Margaret Hodge, Lord Howard and Baroness Neville-Jones were key British signatories to the letter
June 24, 2020, 12:27 pm
More than 1,000 European parliamentarians sign letter against annexation
Lawmakers from 25 countries, including former Tory leader Lord Howard and ex-independent reviewer of terror legislation, Lord Carlile, flag 'serious concerns' over Israel's plans
By Jewish News Reporter
The new Wall of Names with names of the 3,485 Jews who were deported during Nazi occupation
January 31, 2020, 12:52 pm
City of Nice remembers the thousands forcibly deported
We look at the history of the French city with two shuls that has just dedicated a new Wall of Names
By Robert Levitt
United Nations Headquarters
December 7, 2019, 3:35 pm
Thirteen countries vote against a UN anti-Israel motion for the first time
Representatives from states including Germany, Greece Brazil and Colombia switch their positions
By JTA
Yad Vashem's hall of names
September 20, 2019, 11:51 am
Yad Vashem online exhibition opening
Israel's Holocaust memorial museum will mark the 80th anniversary of the Second World War with a new display using personal stories
By Jewish News Reporter
Romanian soldiers participating in the deportation of Jewish families ( July 1941)
July 20, 2019, 7:35 pm
Germany to compensate 8,000 Holocaust survivors from Romania
Israel-based survivors will receive a monthly compensation up to £179 from the German government
By JTA
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