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Nicolae Ceaușescu

Michael Shafir in a 2011 interview. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 24, 2022, 10:11 am
Michael Shafir, scholar who wrote ‘encyclopedia’ of Holocaust denial, dies at 78
Israeli-Romanian researcher, who played key role in Holocaust memory in the former Soviet country, is remembered for his straightforward, humorous presentation of difficult truths
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Former US ambassador to Romania Alfred Moses. (Courtesy)
November 27, 2018, 8:39 am
How an American Moses helped lead Romania’s Jews to the Promised Land
A new book by the former US Ambassador to Bucharest, who in the 1970s and ’80 helped thousands of Jews flee Ceausescu’s regime for Israel, chronicles a country in transition
By Ben Zehavi
Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 17, 2018, 4:30 am
Former PM Barak says Netanyahu just like Romanian dictator Ceausescu
Likud accuses ex-politician of incitement to murder after Tel Aviv speech blasting prime minister over corruption allegations
By ToI Staff
Nicolae Botezatu, seated, and cast of Bucharest's Jewish State Theater performing last year. (The Jewish State Theater of Bucharest/JTA)
February 24, 2014, 8:42 am
Bucharest’s Jewish theater struggles to cheat death
An island of sanity for the capital’s Jewish community and bridge for interfaith discussions, the venue faces an uncertain future
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Romanian President Traian Basescu, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres reviewing an honor guard in Jerusalem, Jan. 20, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90 via JTA)
January 30, 2014, 2:55 am
Denial of Romanian complicity in Holocaust persists
Though Romania and Israel have established a $400m trade exchange, restitution efforts for Jewish property seized during WWII have stymied. Romanian President Traian Basescu responds
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Former political prisoner Emilian Mihailescu, an architect, sits in a cell of the Fort 13 at the Jilava jail, in Jilava, Romania, on April 23, 2013. After decades of denial, chilling details are emerging about the torment guards inflicted upon political prisoners in Romanian communist-era gulags, as part of a first small step toward holding them to account. (photo credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
July 11, 2013, 12:21 pm
Romania takes step toward punishing gulag guards
Former commander Ion Ficior, ‘a human beast,’ claims all his political prisoners were Nazi sympathizers who murdered Jews
Albert B. Wolf
August 27, 2012, 11:00 am
Albert B. Wolf
Let Assad go into exile
As long as the Syrian despot is fighting for his survival, there’s no reason to believe the violence will end
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