After a contentious election, Romania’s few Jews remain on guard against antisemitism
“It’s getting worse for sure,” said Alexandru Muraru, a member of Romania’s parliament
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Fast Forward Romanian right-wing candidate whose party called the Holocaust a ‘minor topic’ loses presidential election
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Fast Forward Far-right politician who praised Nazi collaborators shocks with top finish in Romanian presidential election
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Culture Romania To Open Its First Holocaust Museum
On October 8, the eve of Yom Kippur, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced plans for the country’s first Holocaust museum. The announcement comes 16 years after Romania first acknowledged its role in the Shoah, following a decades-long cover-up under the communist regimes of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and his successor, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Many countries under the USSR…
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Fast Forward Second Mass Grave Of Jewish Holocaust Victims Discovered In Romania
(JTA) — A second mass grave of Jews killed by Romanian troops during World War II was discovered in northeast Romania. The human remains were found near the village of Popricani, the site of a massacre of Jews carried out by Romanian troops allied with the Nazis. In 2010, a mass grave containing 16 bodies…
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Fast Forward Romania Announces It Will Move Embassy to Jerusalem
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă announced Sunday that her country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Speaking at the opening session of the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, Dăncilă explained that her government would soon make the move after having undergone a nearly year-long legal and political consultation. Romania would become the first…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s Childhood Home In Romania Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray painted offensive graffiti on the external walls of a museum for Elie Wiesel in Romania, where he was also born, in what police said was an anti-Semitic incident. The florescent pink graffiti that was painted on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania read “public toilet” and…
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