Radu Ioanid's account of the destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the regime of Ion Antonescu, based upon privileged access to secret East European government archives, is an unprecedented analysis of heretofore purposely hidden materials. He builds an accurate perspective on Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish extermination during this extraordinary period in world history. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With a Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Invaluable...monumental...no comparable work in any language has documented this important history with the thoroughness, skill, and analytical sophistication this book demonstrates.-Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College.

In this book, Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten.

Tracing the secret history of the sale of Romania's Jews by the Communist regime to Israel in the decades after WWII, this updated edition includes a wealth of recently declassified documents from the archives of the Romanian secret police. Ioanid tells the full, startling story of an unprecedented slave trade that lasted through the Cold War.

Tracing the secret history of the sale of Romania's Jews by the Communist regime to Israel in the decades after WWII, this updated edition includes a wealth of recently declassified documents from the archives of the Romanian secret police. Ioanid tells the full, startling story of an unprecedented slave trade that lasted through the Cold War.