Documenting Micro-histories of the Romanian Holocaust: The Compensation Files of the Deportees from Argeș County in the ITS Archives
Documenting Micro-histories of the Romanian Holocaust: The Compensation Files of the Deportees from Argeș County in the ITS Archives
Author(s): Petre MateiSubject(s): Ethnohistory, Oral history, Social history, Comparative politics, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Cold-War History, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania ELIE WIESEL
Keywords: Holocaust; genocide; Jews; Roma; compensation; Romania; Argeș; ITS Bad Arolsen;
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the compensation claims submitted in the summer of 1970 by survivors from Argeș County, Romania. Three categories of claims are analyzed, filed respectively by Roma, Jews, and “political prisoners”. The main question the article asks is to what extent and under which conditions this collection of compensation claims can be used to understand the Holocaust in Romania. As the primary purpose of the claims was to get West German compensation, not to provide historical information (which was presented and filtered accordingly, both by the claimants and by the Romanian authorities), the conclusion is that the collection can only prove useful if seen in this specific context and approached with caution.
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
- Issue Year: XIV/2022
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 63-86
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
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