Re: [Cz-L] romania and the holocaust

Wolfgang
The story in the article is tremendous, like so many from that times.
Thank you for sending it.

Just wanted to mention that in Santiago de Chile, where I live, there
is a family Schaechter.
If you are interested I could look for their e-mail and send it to you.

Regards

Jonny Heiss

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM, wolfgang schaechter
<wolfgangs_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The article below appeared in Saturday's Wall Street Journal.  The town
> mentioned, Popricani, seems to be about 6 miles/10 km from Iasi, where I was
> born.
>
> wolfgang schaechter
>
> **********************************
> 6 Nov 2010 Wall Street Journal
> BUCHAREST, Romania-A Holocaust-era mass grave containing the bodies of an
> estimated 100 Jews killed by Romanian troops has been discovered in a
> forest, researchers said Friday, offering further evidence of the country's
> involvement in wartime crimes.
>
> Human remains are seen after archaeologists uncovered a mass grave of Jews
> killed by Romanian troops during World War II in a forest area near the
> village of Popricani, Romania.
> The find in a forest near the town of Popricani, some 350 kilometers
> northeast of Bucharest, contains the bodies of men, women and children who
> were shot dead in 1941, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of
> the Holocaust in Romania said in a statement.
>
> The find offers evidence of pogroms against Jews in the region, scholars
> say-campaigns that were long swept under the carpet in a country whose
> official history taught that Germans were the sole perpetrators of the
> Holocaust.
>
> Sketchy reports about the possibility of a mass grave in the forest began to
> appear in 2002, and local authorities began an investigation, which was
> suspended after nothing was found. Experts resumed the investigation at the
> site and began interviewing witnesses again in 2009, according to Romanian
> historian Adrian Cioflanca.
>
> Some 280,000 Jews and 11,000 Roma, or Gypsies, were killed during the
> fascist regime of dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu, who was prime minister
> from 1940 to 1944 and was executed by communists in 1946. Romania today has
> only 6,000 Jews.
>
> Historians have documented several pogroms in Romania during World War II,
> including one in June 1941 in the northeastern city of Iasi, where up to
> 12,000 people are believed to have died as Romanian and German soldiers
> swept from house to house, killing Jews. Those who didn't die were
> systematically beaten, put in cattle wagons in stifling heat and taken to a
> small town, where what happened to them would be concealed. Of the 120
> people on the train, just 24 survived.
>
> Romania's role in the Holocaust remains a sensitive and highly charged
> topic. During communist times, the country largely ignored the involvement
> of Romania's leaders in wartime crimes. The country's role in the Holocaust
> and the deportation of Jews were played down by subsequent governments after
> communism collapsed in 1989.
>
> In 2004 after a dispute with Israel over comments about the Holocaust,
> then-President Ion Iliescu assembled an international panel led by
> Nobel-prize winner Elie Wiesel to investigate the Holocaust in Romania.
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