Description
Book SynopsisDrawing from an exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Romania.
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Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Foreword to the Hebrew Edition
Editors' Note
Introduction
1. The Goga Government: Europe's Second Antisemitic Government, 28 December 1937-10 February 1938
2. King Carol II's Dictatorship and Its Policy toward the Jews, February 1938-August 1940
3. The Rhinocerization of the Romanian Intelligentsia
4. The Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Attitude toward the "Jewish Problem"
5. The Nazi Influence on Romanian Political Life and Its Effect on the Situation of the Jews
6. Pogroms and Persecutions in the Summer of 1940
7. The National-Legionary State
8. Romanization
9. Legionary Terror
10. The Confrontation between Antonescu and the Legionnaires and Its Impact on the Situation of the Jews
11. The Legionnaires' Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom, 21-23 January 1941
12. The Jewish Leadership under the National-Legionary Regime
13. The Political and Ideological Foundations of the Antonescu Regime
14. The Government's Attitude toward the Jews
15. Romanization (II)
16. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution, 1941-42
17. The Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem in Bessarabia and Bukovina, June-July 1941
18. The Camps and Ghettos in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, September-November 1941
19. The Kishinev Ghetto
20. Czernowitz
21. Southern Bukovina
22. The Dorohoi District
23. The National Bank of Romania
24. Transnistria under Romanian Occupation
25. The Arrest and Deportation of Jews in Transnistria
26. "The Kingdom of Death"
27. Odessa
28. The Berezovka District
29. The Typhus Epidemic
30. The Hunt for Residents of Jewish Blood
31. The Romanian Church and the Christianization Campaign
32. The Degradation of Judaism and Jews
33. The Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 1941
34. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution in the Regat and Southern Transylvania
35. Toward the Implementation of the Final Solution
36. The Postponement of the Nazi Final Solution
37. The Jews of the Regat and Southern Transylvania in the Shadow of the Final Solution
38. Statistical Data on the Holocaust in Romania
Notes
Bibliography
Index
