"À la fin des années 1930, près de 760 000 Juifs vivaient en Roumanie. En 1945, ils n’étaient plus que 375 000. Fondé sur un accès privilégié aux archives secrètes du gouvernement roumain, ce livre offre une analyse sans précédent de milliers de documents délibérément cachés jusqu’aux années 1990. Pièces d’archives, rapports, mémoires de survivants, lettres privées, Radu Ioanid mobilise tous ces éléments pour restituer les politiques roumaines de persécution et d’extermination des Juifs sous le régime dictatorial de Ion Antonescu.
Parmi les centaines de milliers de Juifs roumains disparus pendant la Seconde...
"Based on documents from Romanian, German, and Russian archives, Ancel traces Ion Antonescu’s policy toward the Jews during his military dictatorship (1940–1944) and his responsibility for the mass deportations and massacres of Jews in Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Odessa. His nationalistic and antisemitic ideology is analyzed, as well as his attitude during the Bucharest pogrom (January 1941), perpetrated by fascist Legionnaires, and the Iasi pogrom (June 1941). The circumstances of Antonescu’s acceptance and then refusal of the Nazi plan to totally annihilate Romanian Jewry is also discussed. Antonescu’s regime...
"The book focuses on Romanian Jews’ use of mainly legal methods, especially in Bucharest which had the largest Jewish population in the “Old Kingdom” of Romania in the inter-war period, to resist the Antonescu regime’s brutal removal of Jews from the economic, social and cultural life of the country through the process of “Romanianization.” The “stunning feat of resistance,” as the author labels the Jewish opposition to these steps, was based on using the relatively available judicial means and an exploitation of the local rules of the game – corruption and nepotism – in order to minimize the damage done to...
"Ion Antonescu, President. Always appeared to be in a boiling temper when confronted with requests relating to life and death. He would pour his wrath, saturated with hatred of Jews, on the petitioner. Maria Antonescu, his wife. A vicious woman with a heart of stone. Traian Braileanu, Minster of Education. Insanely vicious personality. Radu Budisteanu, Minister of Religions. The worst of them all. General Dobre, Deputy Minister of Defense. A man of utmost brutality and refused extra flour for baking matzot (unleavened bread for Passover). General Potopeanu, Minister of Supply; Vasil Iascinski, Minister of Labor;...
Prezenta armatei romane la Odessa, in campania anului 1941, a provocat controverse in istoriografia postdecembrista. De aceea este benefic sa prezentam cititorului argumentatia maresalului Antonescu, cel care a fost autoritatea politica si militara in stat la acea vreme.