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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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Fast Forward Christian Group Sent GOP Congressman To Romania To Meet With Holocaust Denier
The Christian group that runs the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. sponsored a trip to Romania for a member of Congress to meet with a local political leader accused of anti-Semitism, the left-wing news outlet TYT Network reported Wednesday. Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama met with Marian Munteanu on two separate occasions…
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Opinion Do Your Kids and Grandkids Know Their Family History?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In the summer of 2001, two psychologists at Emory University conducted a unique study, hoping to find the “secret” to raising resilient children. The researchers, Marshall Duke and Robin Feivush, suspected that children who had strong ties to previous generations were psychologically more intact. So they interviewed…
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Fast Forward Romania Has No Plans To Move Its Embassy To Jerusalem
(JTA) — The president of Romania, who has the final word on foreign policy issues, dismissed claims by a senior lawmaker in Bucharest who said his country would be the first European Union member state to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. President Klaus Iohannis on Friday denied in a statement the veracity of assertions…
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