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Thread ID: 7376 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-06-15
2003-06-15 19:34 | User Profile
Before you know it, they'll be criticizing [url=http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uv.html]Burkina Faso's[/url] insistence that it had no role in the Holocaustââ¢...
Israeli Holocaust memorial criticizes Romania's insistence it had no role in genocide [url=http://tinyurl.com/ed9v]Jerusalem Post^[/url] | 06-15-2003 | Associated Press
Israel's leading Holocaust research institute, [url=http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/]Yad Vashem[/url], on Sunday rejected the Romanian government's assertion that "there was no Holocaust inside the Romanian borders," saying that hundreds of thousands of Romania Jews were killed in World War II.
A leading Israeli expert on the Holocaust in Romania, Jean Ancel, said that of the 760,000 Jews who once lived in Romanian-controlled territories during World War II, 420,000 were killed. Yad Vashem recently published a two-volume book by Ancel on the subject.
Documents discovered by Ancel also show that the Romanian government was directly involved in the extermination. "Romania was the only ally of Germany that had its own plan of destruction and used its own army to exterminate Jews," said Ancel, charging that some of the crimes were even more savage and more barbaric than those committed by the Germans.
The German Nazis and their allies killed 6 million Jews during World War II, gassing many to death in extermination camps and shooting others after forcing them to dig their own mass graves. Ancel said that in the Ukraine, Romanian soldiers also burned Jews alive.
Romania has been criticized for its reluctance to come to grips with its role in the Holocaust. On Thursday, the government signed an agreement allowing the Washington-based Holocaust Memorial Museum to study Romanian archives about the Holocaust.
Despite that agreement, the Romanian Ministry of Public Information claimed that "within the borders of Romania between 1940 and 1945 there was no Holocaust."
Today, about 6,000 Jews live in Romania.
é 2003 Jerusalem Post
2003-06-15 20:12 | User Profile
Incidentally, "yad vashem" means "your poison" in Russian. And to continue the trivia game, "dub ya" means "I am dumb".