Romania's Forgotten Holocaust: Filmmaker Confronts Leaders Over Silence

[sysop]

In a new documentary film, director Florin Iepan confronts Romania's leaders over their ongoing silence about the country's role in the Holocaust. But in a place where war criminals are still lauded as national heroes, his aim of getting them to acknowledge the past remains a daunting task.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-867058.html

[jidanov]

Firstly, instead of the “Holocaust in Romania” it is more correctly to say “the ethnic cleansing of the Jews done by Romanians” because Romanian Jews died or were persecuted by Hungarian fascist too.

The underling presumption of the article is that in Romania the aforementioned ethnic cleansing is little known which is not true. There are plenty of historical monographs in print in Romanian about the aforementioned ethnic cleansing, many written by Romanian historians, be they of Jewish origin. Moreover, the historical details of the aforementioned ethnic cleansing are taught to pupils in school nowadays. Not to mention that the negation of the Holocaust is a crime in Romania.

I don’t understand what the author of the article wants really. That we (Romanians) talk every day about the aforementioned ethnic cleansing? Probably.