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On 23rd August 1944, following the collapse of the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Ion Antonescu, Romania changed sides and abandoned the Axis to join the Allies. Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania explores the hopes, struggles and disappointments of Jewish communities in Romania seeking to rebuild their lives after the Holocaust. Focusing on the efforts of survivors to recuperate rights and property, Stefan Cristian Ionescu demonstrates how the early transitional government enabled short term restitution. However, from 1948, the consolidated communist regime implemented nationalizations which dispossessed many citizens. Jewish communities were disproportionality affected, and real estate and many businesses were lost once again. Drawing on archival sources from government documentation to diaries and newspaper reports, this study explores both the early success and later reversal of restitution policies. In doing so, it sheds light on the postwar treatment of Romanian Jewish survivors, and the reasons so many survivors emigrated from Romania.
Sommario
Introduction; 1. Post-Holocaust Romania and its political, social, and economic context; 2. Rebuilding Jewish lives and communities; 3. Negotiations and drafting of the main restitution laws; 4. The public opinion and the topic of restitution; 5. Negotiating the peace treaty and restitution with the Allies; 6. Restitution through court litigation; 7. Communist nationalizations, Jewish property, and emigration; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Info autore
Stefan Cristian Ionescu is the Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss-Holocaust Educational Foundation Visiting Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies at the Department of History at Chapman University. He has particular research interests in the Holocaust and Jewish-non-Jewish relations in twentieth century Romania. His previous publications include Jewish Resistance to 'Romanianization': 1940–1944 (2015).
