RE: [Cz-L] Re: Romanian Holocaust.

In reply to Mimi,
Of course there were pogroms all around us. Of course there was a Romanian
Holocaust and there were deportations to Transnistria from Bucovina and to
Auschwitz from Transylvania even after we were already liberated by the
Russians in the Moldova region. The Bucoviner refugees in our town were
rounded up and sent to Transnistria,- something my mother feared would
happen also to her.The half of the Jewish population who survived however
without being deported, were in the "regat" (as my parents called it).

I know many Jewish Romanian survivors still alive here, who were friends of
my parents,- from Bucharest and ellsewhere and if you ask them about a
Romanian Holocaust they shrug their shoulders and claim they have no
knowledge of it. Antisemitism,- yes. Wearing the yellow star, yes, but
otherwise they lived in their own homes throughout, fearful for their
future, but thankfully it did not happen to them or us. Nor did it happen to
the Bulgarian Jewish community either,- both countries being Orthodox
Christian rather than Catholic. I firmly believe that this has a lot to do
with what happened in Poland and the Ukraine, Hungary/Transylvania, etc.

The Judenraht was not in Romania,- but it did exist in Hungary and
elsewhere. It made the Germans' work easier to round up the community,-
unfortunately the leaders left themselves to the last and that is why their
role is in disrepute.

Malvina Malinek
http://anivlam.blogspot.com
Anivlam on www.twitter.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-4087618-8971248_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-4087618-8971248_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
> Miriam Taylor
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:28 AM
> To: Hegma; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] Re: Malvina's message; Romanian Holocaust.
>
>
> I have recently had the opportunity to view a list of
> documents which the Romanian government kept on file about
> the Jewish inhabitants within its borders in the years
> immediately prior to WW2 and during the WW2. There are
> general lists, lists of people who belonged to any Jewish
> organization, lists of people who belonged to any political
> party, list of those who had emigrated to Palestine and on
> and on. The Romanian government, did not need the heads of
> Jewish communities to cooperate with them, they already had
> all the information they needed. Starting from the
> mid-thirties, Romania was largely a police state.
>
> ALL Romanians DID NOT participate in the Fascist murders.
> Ethnic Romanians were often also the victims of the murders,
> such as nominated prime minister Calinescu. Some Romanians,
> such as Traian Popovici, Tit Simedrea and some military
> officers, did all they could to protect the Jews in their
> midst. The facts remain: The Antonescu government, many
> Romanian soldiers and civilians, ordered and participated
> intentionally and with great cruelty, in the murder of
> thousands of Jews.
>
> The estimated number of Jews living in Romania in 1930 is
> 756,930 The estimated number of Jews living in Romania in
> 1945 is 355,972 Of the approximately 400,000 fewer Jews in
> 1945, it is estimated that 135,000 were those living in
> northern Transylvania, who were deported by the Hungarian
> government to Nazi concentration camps and murdered there. It
> follows that 265,000 Romanian Jews, or 35% of all Romanian
> Jews, were murdered as a consequence of the actions of the
> Romanian government of that period.
>
> Mimi
>
>
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