Romania founds Holocaust research
institute
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
(dpa)
08/07/2005
08/07/2005
Bucharest (dpa) - The Romanian government announced
Sunday that it has decided to found a Holocaust research institute, which is
expected to open shortly.
The institute plans to employ 30 people who are
expected to gather testimony on the persecution of Jews in Romania, publish
their insights and contribute to the preservation of the intellectual heritage
of the Jewish communities in Romania.
The subject caused diplomatic tensions between
Israel and Romania one year ago after the then president Ion Iliescu and prime
minister Adrian Nastase, both socialist politicians, denied that there had ever
been a holocaust in Romania.
Before the Second World War, there were some
800,000 Jews living in Romania. About half of them were murdered by Romanian,
Hungarian and German Nazis.
The majority of survivors later emigrated to
Israel, so that the Jewish community in Romania now numbers only some
12,000.
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