Romania Jewish Remains From World War II Buried

BUCHAREST, Romania — The remains of dozens of Jews killed by Romanian troops during World War II have been buried in a Jewish graveyard in the eastern city of Iasi.

The daily Eveniumentual Zilei reported Tuesday that seven rabbis from the United States, Britain and Romania took part in Monday afternoon's ceremony.

In November, a Holocaust-era mass grave containing the bodies of an estimated 100 Jews was discovered in a forest, offering further evidence of the country's involvement in wartime crimes. Women and children were among the victims killed in 1941.

Romania's role in the Holocaust remains a sensitive and highly charged topic. Under communism the country largely ignored the involvement of Romania's leaders in wartime crimes.

Comments

[LMPE]

02:12 PM on 04/06/2011

It's never too late to atone for misdeeds.

[Farsha]

10:47 AM on 04/06/2011

Alas Slavs and Romas never remembered leave alone Germany paying them.

[GraphicMatt]

12:12 PM on 04/06/2011

Who has forgotten about them? And if they want reperations they should persue it. Better yet, since you are so concerned you can start the reperations movement for the Slavs and the Romas. Or are you just running your mouth?

[Ron Broxted]

06:10 AM on 04/06/2011

The remains should have been flown to Israel and buried there. With full honours. Eminescu said of Romanian history "Thy beauty is hidden through a veil of tears" certainly the case here.

[MarcEdward]

08:19 AM on 04/06/2011

Why buried in Israel?
To erase all traces of Jewish identity and cultural contributions in Europe?

[Ron Broxted]

08:33 AM on 04/06/2011

No M it is just my personal opinion. I think it would be nice. Happy Pesach next week.

[LilacFields]

09:26 AM on 04/06/2011

Why? They were Romanians. Let them be buried respectfully in their homeland.
Jews were subject to considerable discrimination in Romania in the postwar years and many of those who emigrated to Israel did so unwillingly.

[Ron Broxted]

11:21 AM on 04/06/2011

Romania is an invented nationalism. It is as I said my opinion. We cannot ask the dead.

[RubalKhali]

02:18 AM on 04/06/2011

Just wondering, how do they know these skeletons are Jews and not Roma gypsies or any of the other groups singled out for execution.

[friendsofidf]

09:17 AM on 04/06/2011

The last poster who said the same thing was scrubbed! OBNOXIOUS,as usual! The Mossad did it! Happy now??

[friendsofidf]

09:18 AM on 04/06/2011

False Flag! Mossad did it! Irgun! Stern Gang! Liberty! Sabra and Shatilla! Fake Jenin Massacre! ..and what else?? GEEZ!! The last poster that asked that obnoxious question had his post scrubbed!

[GraphicMatt]

12:09 PM on 04/06/2011

Him and his nasty ilk have no shame.

[friendsofidf]

10:14 PM on 04/05/2011

Maybe they were ..Venezuelans?

[friendsofidf]

10:17 PM on 04/05/2011

Maybe they still had those yellow Jewish stars on their clothes?

[Mister Grumpy]

08:56 PM on 04/05/2011

And yet with all the proof........ there are still those that deny that the holocaust ever took place...........

[friendsofidf]

09:50 PM on 04/05/2011

...like that "moderate " Arab ..Mahmood Abbas..who wrote his college thesis on....HOLOCAUST DENIAL! That's a fact!

[rightstroke]

10:59 PM on 04/05/2011

almost all leaders of muslims countries believe it didnt happen

[RubalKhali]

02:16 AM on 04/06/2011

B.S. You have taken a poll of all of them ,have you? Take the Islamophobic hate bake to the settlement.

[MarcEdward]

08:21 AM on 04/06/2011

An assertion based on nothing but prejudice.

[joebiteme]

06:56 PM on 04/05/2011

If this was the US they would have demanded another museum and a special statue and mausoleum funded by the taxpayers

[mathme]

07:40 PM on 04/05/2011

Yeah, remembering stuff is dumb!

[joebiteme]

08:01 PM on 04/05/2011

especially when it had nothing to do with our american history

[Mister Grumpy]

08:55 PM on 04/05/2011

You should run for congress as a GOP candidate with that attitude..........

[Oren nerO]

09:56 PM on 04/05/2011

i think you are confused with 9-11. we have had a 10 year special museum funded by taxpayers that will cost us, in the end 3 trillion dollars. maybe a small statue would have been better, instead of 2 wars, a new government agency, and a total transformation of our society into scared wimpy freaks, afraid of shoes and under pants

[avril666]

09:35 PM on 04/05/2011

probably less than the amount Jews killed

[friendsofidf]

09:53 PM on 04/05/2011

Ask the Arabs serving in the Arab Legion of the Third Reich!

[JacksonJones]

05:55 PM on 04/05/2011

May they all rest in peace.

[SURFER DUDE]

03:41 PM on 04/05/2011

Romania was part of the axis powers during WW2. They were Germany's main supplier of oil. They rounded up their Jews and sent them to camps just as fast as France did.....except France was just occupied by Germany, not their ally.

[GZLives]

04:54 PM on 04/05/2011

"ex­cept France was just occupied by Germany, not their ally."

Perhaps you've heard of Vichy France and Marshal Petain?
They collaborated with the Germans

[SURFER DUDE]

08:16 PM on 04/05/2011

All of France surrendered to Germany. Vichy was a sham puppet government that lasted what, a couple of years before Germany took control again. My point was that the day after France surrendered and became occupied by the Germans, they started doing Germany's bidding. Romania was a German ally since the inception of the war. They had final solution plans in place for years.

[KIVPossum]

03:18 PM on 04/05/2011

There are still many mass graves around. Every once in a while we'll be in a village and hear rumor of one 'somewhere' nearby. Folks know they are there, just not exactly where.

[ButterTub]

03:49 PM on 04/05/2011

Very interesting. My GF is from a village outside Cluj (near Turda). I'll ask her about this tonight.

[KIVPossum]

04:19 PM on 04/05/2011

Yes, I know Cluj. We are in Chisinau maybe 300 kilometers to the east of Cluj.

[TheIndependenceParty]

07:56 PM on 04/05/2011

Here in America there is a mass grave of Irish Laborers killed in the 1830's when they got sick with Cholera working on the railroad. It is thought the locals killed them out of fear of the disease, ... but that is no excuse. Search for "duffy's Cut"' near Philadelphia. Over 50 men whose families never saw their hard working men come home again.

May they all rest in peace.

[Susan Shaffer]

08:32 PM on 04/05/2011

you mean someone is 'brave" enough to go near someone with cholera just to kill them?

[TXfemmom]

01:27 PM on 04/05/2011

RIP for these victims.  Humans are capable of such heinous actions towards one another. 

[AmigaMan]

02:07 PM on 04/05/2011

So very true. Unfortunately people do not learn from history.

[CigarGod]

05:13 PM on 04/05/2011

As the poet said: Knowlege is not cumulative.

[Chris Herz]

12:37 PM on 04/05/2011

Americans are sentimental about Eastern Europe because these were the "satellite countries", supposedly captives, victims of the Soviet Union. The fact was their prewar governments were generally Fascistic military dictatorships and they had in most cases enthusiastically allied themselves with Germany and Italy.
It was the two hundred divisions of the Red Army that stopped this ghastly business.

[austerlitz1805]

01:27 PM on 04/05/2011

Poland was not. And I suppose if you enjoy work camps and a lower standard of living, then living under the U.S.S.R. would work well for you. And Russians hated Jews quite a bit. Look at all the pogroms carried out against them and all the Jews who fled from there.

[KIVPossum]

03:17 PM on 04/05/2011

Granted the Russians did / do hate Jews, what Chris said is correct

[theuniversalcollective]

12:10 PM on 04/05/2011

Yitkadal V'Yitkadash Schmei Rabah

[friendsofidf]

09:55 PM on 04/05/2011

AMEN!

[MarcEdward]

12:07 PM on 04/05/2011

Glad they have been re-buried, but better if the Romanians had not been so enthusiastic antisemites. This tragedy never need have occurred. Rest in peace.