During a ceremony held Sunday in the city of Iasi, the country’s foreign minister, Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, said the country must take responsibility for its role in the deaths of Romanian Jews during World War II and educate young people about Jewish contributions to Romanian culture. On Monday, the Elie Wiesel Institute for Holocaust Studies was slated to open in the country’s capital of Bucharest.

Romania has made strides during the past few years toward acknowledging its complicity in the Holocaust, since a Romanian government statement denying that the Holocaust took place on Romanian territory sparked an uproar.

• President Traian Basescu in Washington, D.C.
• B'nai B'rith International Welcomes First Holocaust Remembrance Day In Romania
• In Advance of Presentation of Report to Romanian President:Final Meeting of The International Commission on the Holocaust
• The statue or democracy adrift
• Historic truth and lived history
• Interview with Daniel Mariaschin, Executive Vice-President of B'nai B'rith International
• Appeal to the Jews Born in Romania, who live in Israel and all over the world
• B'NAI B'RITH receives grant for "The Romanian Jewish Heritage" Project