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Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 2, 2024, 5:56 am
Romania ‘shocked’ by Israeli minister’s call with candidate who praised WWII antisemites
After Amichai Chikli talks with Calin Georgescu, Bucharest’s ambassador denounces ‘insult,’ demands apology for the apparent backing of far-right figure who lauded murderers of Jews
By Lazar Berman
A member of the Jewish community walks at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Iasi, Romania, on June 29, 2021. (Liviu Chirica/AFP)
June 30, 2021, 9:24 pm
Romania holds unprecedented commemoration of Jewish victims of 1941 pogrom
Official leading fight against antisemitism says parliamentary meeting before massacre’s survivors ‘is laying the foundations for a truth-based reconciliation’ with country’s past
By AFP
Romania's former King Michael waves to supporters during an appearance at the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest, Romania, on November 19, 2014. (AP Photo/ Octav Ganea, File)
December 5, 2017, 6:46 pm
Ex-Romanian king who helped overthrow Nazi ally dies at 96
Michael I best remembered for role in coup ousting Ion Antonescu, paving the way for toppling of fascist regime during WWII
By Alison Mutler
Illustrative: In this March 11, 2017 picture, a man reads The Book of Esther. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
March 14, 2017, 9:57 pm
In Romania’s small Jewish community, large helpings of Purim cheer
Children don costumes to join aging congregation in celebrating the averted genocide of the Jewish people in ancient Persia
By AP
An honor guard soldier stands during a ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania in February 2012, next to a monument bearing the names of Romanian Jewish refugees killed in 1942 aboard the SS Struma. Around 792 people drowned after the ship was struck by a Soviet torpedo (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
October 10, 2016, 10:03 pm
Romania to open first state-run Jewish Museum
Set to open in Bucharest in 2018, museum will focus on what before the Holocaust was Europe’s third-largest Jewish community
By AFP
Romanian Jews attend a commemoration service for Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, at Choral Temple in Bucharest on July 7, 2016. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
July 8, 2016, 6:36 am
Hundreds pay tribute in Elie Wiesel’s native Romania
Nobel laureate, who died Saturday, helped uncover the murder of hundreds of thousands by WWII-era Antonescu government
By AFP
Historian Alexandru Climescu poses for a picture at the monument of the Holocaust memorial in Bucharest on January 25, 2016. (AFP / DANIEL MIHAILESCU)
January 27, 2016, 9:41 pm
Romania struggles to confront Holocaust past
While Bucharest is making efforts, historians say it still has a lot to learn about its complicity in a dark chapter of history
By Mihaela RODINA
An honor guard soldier stands during a ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania in February 2012, next to a monument bearing the names of Romanian Jewish refugees killed in 1942 aboard the SS Struma. Around 792 people drowned after the ship was struck by a Soviet torpedo (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
August 5, 2015, 10:25 pm
Nearly 1 in 4 Romanians want their country free of Jews — poll
Half of respondents call leader who murdered half of Romanian Jewry during Holocaust ‘a patriot’
By JTA
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