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Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustIntroduction

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust: Introduction [On January 27, 2009, sixty-four years after the end of World War II, Ruth Glasberg Gold was the first survivor of Transnistria to talk on the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust organized by the United Nations. Her emotional testimony is an affirmation for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Holocaust in Romania. Most importantly, she remembers her mother who, before perishing in Transnistria, had advised Gold to “bear witness!” My Holocaust experience is different from others. I have no tattoo, because I am a survivor of a less organized and methodical plan of annihilation. The Romanian methods were primitive and barbaric, but not less lethal than those of Nazi Germany. They did not bother with tattooing, filming and photographing their inhuman acts. They threw themselves into action without restraint and with such ferocity that appalled even the Germans.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustIntroduction

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Glajar, Valentina; Teodorescu, Jeanine
Glajar, Valentina
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust — Oct 18, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29451-0
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1 –16
DOI
10.1057/9780230118416_1
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Abstract

[On January 27, 2009, sixty-four years after the end of World War II, Ruth Glasberg Gold was the first survivor of Transnistria to talk on the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust organized by the United Nations. Her emotional testimony is an affirmation for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Holocaust in Romania. Most importantly, she remembers her mother who, before perishing in Transnistria, had advised Gold to “bear witness!” My Holocaust experience is different from others. I have no tattoo, because I am a survivor of a less organized and methodical plan of annihilation. The Romanian methods were primitive and barbaric, but not less lethal than those of Nazi Germany. They did not bother with tattooing, filming and photographing their inhuman acts. They threw themselves into action without restraint and with such ferocity that appalled even the Germans.1]

Published: Oct 18, 2015

Keywords: Holocaust Memorial; Nationalist Ideology; Romanian Writer; Present Past; Romanian Government

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