Washington, D.C.
June 25-26, 1996
The United States Holocaust Research Institute, the
scholarly division of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, and the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies of the
Graduate School of the City University of New York are sponsoring
an international scholars conference on the fate of Romanian and
Ukrainian Jews. The conference, which will take place at the
Museum on the 55th Anniversary of the Jassy pogrom, will bring
together leading scholars from the United States, Israel,
Romania, France and the Czech Republic. The topics to be covered
by the panels include antisemitism in Romania, the mass murder
campaigns carried out against Romanian and Ukrainian Jews, the
reaction to mass murder outside Romania, and the post-war and
post-Communist myths created about Antonescu. There will be a
solemn ceremony in the Museum's Hall of Remembrance at 6PM on
June 25 memorializing the massacres. Representative Tom Lantos of
California will be the keynote speaker.
Schedule:
Tuesday, June 25.
Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Greetings and Opening Statements
Professor Emeritus Randolph Braham, The Rosenthal Institute
for Holocaust Studies
Dr. Radu Ioanid, United States Holocaust Research Institute
Session I: Setting the Stage
Chair: Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Anti-Semitism as Reflected in the Records of the Council
of Ministers, 1940-1944: An Analytical Overview
Ms. Lya Benjamin, Centre of History of the Jews of
Romania, Bucharest
Immigration and Emigration: The Changing Role of Romanian Jewry
Dr. Dalia Ofer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Session II: The Drive Against the Jews
Chair: Dr. Radu Ioanid
The Jassy Pogrom
Dr. Radu Florian, The Institute of Social Theory of the
Romanian Academy, Bucharest
The Romanian Campaigns of Mass Murder in Transnistria
Dr. Jean Ancel, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
The Jews of Kishinev (Chisinau): Soviet Withdrawal and
Romanian
Reoccupation _
Dr. Paul A. Shapiro, U.S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C.
The Victim as Eyewitness: Jewish Intellectual Diaries During
the Antonescu Period
Dr. Leon Volovici, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
6 p.m.
Ceremony in Commemoration of Romanian and Ukrainian Jewry lost
in the Holocaust
The Hall of Rememberance
Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Tomas Lantos, United States House of
Representitives
Wednesday, June 26.
Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Session III: The Foreign Factor
Chair: Dr. Severin Hochberg, United States Holocaust
Research Institute
The Jews of Transylvania Under Hungarian and Romanian Rule
Professor Emeritus Randolph L. Braham, The Rosenthal
Institute for Holocaust Studies
The Fate of Romanian Jews in Nazi-Dominated Europe During
World War II
Dr. Radu Ioanid, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Situation of Romanian Jewry During the Antonescu
Period: Reactions and Perceptions of the Yishuv
Dr. Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv University
The Jews of Romania During the Antonescu Regime as Reflected
in French Diplomatic Documents
Professor Carol Iancu, Paul Valery University-Montpellier III
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Session IV: Myths and History Cleansing
Chair: Professor Randolph L. Braham
Historigraphers Against the Antonescu Myth
Dr. Victor Eskenasy, OMRI Research Institute, Prague
Anti-Semitism and Myth-Making in Post-Communist Romania
Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
The Post-Communist Attempts at Antonescu's Rehabilitation
Dr. Michael Shafir, OMRI Research Institute, Prague
Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free and held at the
United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW,
Washington, DC 20024-2150. Street Parking is limited. Visitors
are
encouraged to use public transportation. Metro: Orange or Blue
line,
Smithsonian Station, Independence Ave exit.
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