'So They Remember' recounts the Holocaust in Transnistria, a territory in occupied southern Ukraine that was controlled by Romania, a close ally to Nazi Germany for most of the war, with a blend of intimate family memoir and vigorous historical research
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BUCHAREST In late April, the Washington National Cathedral unveiled a stone carving of Holocaust survivor and longtime political activist Elie Wiesel to honor his legacy as an international human rights defender.
But in the Nobel laureate s birthplace of Romania, Nazi-allied leader Marshal Ion Antonescu a man who sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths has streets named after him.
There are, in fact, at least 17 places in the country with streets, busts, or institutions named after war criminals, according to the Elie Wiesel Institute for the Study of the Holocaust.
They include Antonescu, a Holocaust perpetrator who was executed in 1946 after his conviction by a People s Tribunal for war crimes and treason, among other crimes; Radu Gyr, a poet who supported a fascist paramilitary group known as the Iron Guard; and far-right philosopher and politician Mircea Vulcanescu, who served in Antonescu s government.
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Germany s ambassador to Romania, Cord Meier-Klodt, declared on Tuesday that the project titled 1,700 years of history and Jewish culture in Germany (321-2021) proposes to send a message of multiculturalism and understanding among peoples, report agerpres.
He said during the inaugural session of the project named 1,700 years of history and Jewish culture in Germany (321-2021) that this anniversary is celebrated in Romania as well, from at least three reasons.
Jewish life unites us. We have a very long common tradition of Jewish culture in our countries. (.) Because 1,700 years of Jewish life represents a strong symbol of culture and civilization s victory upon barbarism and death. (.) The Holocaust, the pogroms and deportations of Jewish citizens during the Nazi period have not only stolen the lives of millions of Jewish people, but have also mostly destroyed the Jewish culture in our countries. Still, we see today that Jewish life is again presen