Diplomatul Constantin I. Karadja şi situaţia evreilor români din statele controlate/ocupate de cel de-al III-lea Reich, 1941-1944
The diplomat Constantin I. Karadja and the Romanian Jews situation from the states occupied/controlled by the Third Reich, 1941-1944

Summary/Abstract: Constantin Karadja (1889-1950) was a diplomat in the Foreign Service of Romania and as such from 1931 to 1941 Romanian Consul General seated in Berlin. From 1941 to 1944 he was the Director of the Consular Department in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In that capacity, the Romanian diplomat submitted a number of reports to the appropriate offices in Romania in which he advocated the need to save the Romanian citizens of Jewish origin who were in Germany and in occupied territories. That action took place at a time when the conditions of the survivors among those citizens were desperate. Owing to the intervention of the Romanian Consular Direction, those people were permitted to return to Romania endowed with passports. In his notes and reports, of which the most relevant can be found in the Diplomatic Archive of Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consul Karadja proves to be a man of extraordinary commitment and high professional integrity, whose defining characteristic is humaneness. As a recognition of his merits, on 15 September 2005, Constantin Karadja received from the Institute Yad Vashem in Jerusalem posthumously the title "Righteous Among the Nations" during a ceremony in the Israeli embassy in Berlin.

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