The History of the Holocaust in Romania

Jean Ancel, Yaffah Murciano

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780803220645
• eBook ISBN:
  9780803238428
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword to the Hebrew Edition
• Editors’ Note
• Introduction
• 1. The Goga Government: Europe’s Second Antisemitic Government, 28 December 1937–10 February 1938
• 2. King Carol II’s Dictatorship and Its Policy toward the Jews, February 1938–August 1940
• 3. The Rhinocerization of the Romanian Intelligentsia
• 4. The Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Attitude toward the “Jewish Problem”
• 5. The Nazi Influence on Romanian Political Life and Its Effect on the Situation of the Jews
• 6. Pogroms and Persecutions in the Summer of 1940
• 7. The National-Legionary State
• 8. Romanization
• 9. Legionary Terror
• 10. The Confrontation between Antonescu and the Legionnaires and Its Impact on the Situation of the Jews
• 11. The Legionnaires’ Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom, 21–23 January 1941
• 12. The Jewish Leadership under the National-Legionary Regime
• 13. The Political and Ideological Foundations of the Antonescu Regime
• 14. The Government’s Attitude toward the Jews
• 15. Romanization (II)
• 16. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution, 1941–42
• 17. The Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem in Bessarabia and Bukovina, June–July 1941
• 18. The Camps and Ghettos in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, September–November 1941
• 19. The Kishinev Ghetto
• 20. Czernowitz
• 21. Southern Bukovina
• 22. The Dorohoi District
• 23. The National Bank of Romania
• 24. Transnistria under Romanian Occupation
• 25. The Arrest and Deportation of Jews in Transnistria
• 26. “The Kingdom of Death”
• 27. Odessa
• 28. The Berezovka District
• 29. The Typhus Epidemic
• 30. The Hunt for Residents of Jewish Blood
• 31. The Romanian Church and the Christianization Campaign
• 32. The Degradation of Judaism and Jews
• 33. The Iaşi Pogrom, 29 June 1941
• 34. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution in the Regat and Southern Transylvania
• 35. Toward the Implementation of the Final Solution
• 36. The Postponement of the Nazi Final Solution
• 37. The Jews of the Regat and Southern Transylvania in the Shadowof the Final Solution
• 38. Statistical Data on the Holocaust in Romania
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index