Poraimos in Banat. O cercetare fundamentala asupra Holocaustului romilor in judetele Caras, Severin, Timis-Torontal si Arad (1939–1945)
Poraimos in the Banat. A fundamental research on the Holocaust of the Roma people in the counties Caras, Severin, Timis-Torontal and Arad (1939–1945)

Summary/Abstract: The formation of the nation-states in the Central and South-East of the old continent following the dissolution of the Central Powers at the end of the First World War gave the opportunity to assert the collective identity expressed by a number of linguistic, cultural and ethnic groups. The Great Powers, true heterogeneous structures in linguistic and confessional terms, had tried unsuccessfully to create a supranational identity by eliminating or at best leveling the distinct elements of Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Romanians, Finns, without of course forget about the Baltic peoples. Usually people react strongly, positively or negatively to what they perceive to be right differently. Too few times do they remain indifferent. One of the negative reactions is anxiety. The fear of otherness, of the different cultural, linguistic and religious fellow citizens of the majority group can be compensated by exploration and experimentation, by accepting and embracing the differences. The power of words and the power of thoughts are probably the greatest forces for people through the long-term impact they can have on individuals but also on communities. The purpose of Nazism was to exterminate all Jews in Europe. Gypsies and neo-Protestant sects were on the list. Under these conditions, the mere survival of the Jews was a form of resistance. In Romania, the resistance was relatively successful. A relatively large percentage of the Jewish and Gypsy community in Romania survived the Holocaust.

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