By Ioana Florea, Isabela Panek, Jelena Steigerwald Between 1937 and 1945, more than 250.000 people from all over Europe, including Northern Transylvania, were imprisoned by the Nazi regime in Buchenwald concentration camp and its adjacent camps. Testimonies from this period were given by survivors in interviews taken in 1998, 2002, 2005 and during a discussion between Miklós/Nicolae Kallós, Ladislau/Vasile Nuszbaum, László Székely, the activists from “Third Generation Buchenwald” and researchers from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which took place in Cluj in October 2014. We thank Andrea Julika Ghiță for facilitating this discussion. Most of the Romanian prisoners from Buchenwald …

Testimonies by LIVIU BERIS and ALEXANDRU ELIAS This material is the transcript of a discussion with Holocaust survivors Liviu Beris and Alexandru Elias during the conference/workshop Nationalism, Fascism and the Holocaust in Romanian History – A Critical Approach, organized by Third Generation Buchenwald during October 16-20 in Bucharest. Liviu Beris was evicted from Herta, his hometown, at the age of 13 and deported to Moghilev concentration camp in Transnistria/Pridnestrovie. Today he is the president of the Association of Romanian Jews Victims of the Holocaust. Alexandru Elias was deported to Tirgu-Jiu labor camp in 1942, at the age of 16, for …

By: Isabel Panek, Jelena Steigerwald   In the last years, the Romanian authorities have officially recognise Roma as victims of the Holocaust. But still their suffering and loss is not firmly fixed in the memory culture. Different projects and initiatives exist to support Roma survivors to receive compensation and to give their story a voice, such as the film “Valley of Sighs” or the project “Helping Roma Survivors of Deportations to Transnistria”.   On the 22nd of June 1941 Nazi-Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the war of destruction started. During the operation, which was called operation Barbarossa, more than four …