Home  / ROM18

The Holocaust as reflected in Communist and Post-Communist Romanian textbooks

Author(s)

Publication Name

Publication Date

Abstract

Romanian history textbooks were mostly silent about the Holocaust during the Communist era. The authors reconstructed the different models of remembering the Holocaust that are present in post-Communist Romanian textbooks. The analysis revealed the existence of six different models of recollecting this history. The six models of representing the Holocaust are: (1) The Holocaust is completely absent; (2) Romania as a saviour of Jews; (3) Discrimination without deportations; (4) Deportations to camps for unnamed victims; (5) Deportations without the final solution; and (6) The Romanian Holocaust: discrimination, pogroms and deportations. The analysis focused on Romanian History textbooks published before and after 1989; A qualitative analysis of the textbooks was employed.

Topics

Genre

Geographic Coverage

Original Language

Volume/Issue

24(1-2)

Page Number / Article Number

41-60

DOI

Link

Link to article (paywalled), The Holocaust as reflected in Communist and Post-Communist Romanian textbooks

Bibliographic Information

Bărbulescu, Ana, Degeratu, Laura, Guşu, Cosmina The Holocaust as reflected in Communist and Post-Communist Romanian textbooks. Intercultural Education. 2013: 41-60.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/14675986.2013.778153