The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory Series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania

The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory Series

Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust: 

Filling in the Gaps 

Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Ana Bărbulescu

Holocaust Reception in Romania:  Politic Acknowledgement and Mnemonic Myopia

Olga Stefan

The Future of Memory: Approaches to Fighting Antisemitism and Holocaust Forgetting through Art and Media

Anat Bratman-Elhalel

Audio and Video Testimonies of Romanian Holocaust Survivors

For the fifth and final program in the series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps, we will focus on Holocaust Public Memory in Post-Communist Romania

Our first speaker, Dr. Ana Bărbulescu, will introduce our audience to the inconsistency that characterizes the public memory of the Holocaust within the Romanian society, focusing on why the Romanian society has difficulties to acknowledge the Holocaust of the Romanian Jews.  As the founder of the transnational platform, Olga Stefan, the second speaker, will discuss the mission and activities of the platform, the research and documentaries undertaken and produced, and what the future might hold as so many countries in the West slide to the right. Our final speaker is Anat Bratman-Elhalel, Director of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives.  She will discuss the transcription project of audio and video testimonies that have been collected over the years. This project represents a significant step in making these valuable materials accessible to the public. Included in these testimonies are accounts from survivors from Romania. The lecture will disclose these testimonies.

There will be an exclusive screening of Olga Stefan’s film Gestures of Resistance.  This documentary connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance and their relevance in today´s society. A link to watch the documentary will be sent to registrants close to the date of the webinar.

The series is in participation with A.M.I.R. Organization, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, Classrooms Without Borders, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.