International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania

<x-flowed>May 20, 2004, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.÷US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Helena Rubinstein
Auditorium. Symposium: The Holocaust in Romania

In October 2003, President of Romania Ion Iliescu announced the formation

of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, chaired by

Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel. The first plenary meeting of the

Commission will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

and will include public presentations of the Commission's findings on May

20, 2004.



The Commission's goal is to establish the facts of the Holocaust in Romania

and to disseminate its findings in Romania and abroad. Composed of

recognized historians and public figures from France, Germany, Israel,

Romania, and the United States, the Commission's mandate is to study in

detail the discrimination, isolation, internment, deportation, and physical

destruction of Romanian Jews and other Jews under Romanian control from

December 1937 to May 1945; the persecution of parts of the Roma population

in Romania between 1942 and 1944; and the post-World War II trials of the

perpetrators accused of crimes related to these events.



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Received on 2004-05-10 09:06:03