Friday, November 12, 2004

Rumania

Someone, tell Elie Wiesel it's safe to go back now. Only sixty years later, President Ion Iliescu now admits that somewhere between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were killed in Rumania during the Holocaust, and accepts the responsibility "in the name of the Rumanian State". Many more Rumanians were killed in Hungary and in Transylvania.

Only last year, a Rumanian minister said that there had been no Holocaust on Rumanian soil. After the war, there was still so much antisemitism in that country that Rumanian Jews who had survived, didn't dare return home.

"Strong Man" Antonescu, who personally led a large portion of the mass murders, is still a hero to a lot of Rumanians.

(How do you make Rumanian goulash? First, steal a chicken...
--Old Bulgarian joke)

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