The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu Era

by Randolph L. Braham (Editor)

The Romanian chapter in the history of European Jewry during the Nazi era is replete with complex and controversial issues, including the anti-Jewish measures of the late 1930s, the pogroms of the early 1940s, and the mass murders of Jews in Romanian-occupied parts of Ukraine. Divided into four parts, the book includes an analytical view of anti-Semitism as reflected in the 1940-1944 records of the Council of Ministers; the genocidal drive against Romanian and Ukrainian Jews during the Antonescu era; the "foreign factor" in the history of the Holocaust in Romania; and the myths and history-cleansing campaigns spearheaded by Roman nationalists.

424 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 1997

About the author

A political scientist and Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed at Auschwitz, Dr. Braham came to the United States in 1948. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and government and a master’s in education from City College. He received a doctorate in political science from the New School for Social Research. He was a professor at the City University of New York, where he founded the Graduate Center’s Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. He was an expert on the Holocaust in Hungary and was best known for The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary.