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A short summary of the book entitled "The suffering, the resistance, the heroism" - Collection of documents from the History of the Jews from Romania, Printing House of the W. Filderman Foundation, Bucharest, 2003, pages 300- is published in "The Cultural Observer" magazine. Teodor Wexler, the author of this presentation, under whose coordination this edition is published, is mentioning that the volume contains official documents released by the Romanian and Jewish authorities between 1940 and 1944. These documents, which were in the archive of the Romanian Information Service being strictly confidential for almost half century, are offering "the possibility of public aknowledgement of some pages of the suffering, the resistance and the heroism of the Romanian Jewish community"...
The events and the dates presented belong to the Romanian Secret Police during the 1944 period as well as to representatives of the Palestinian Mossad, who were parachuted on the Romanian territory, periodically reported to the agencies from Istanbul and Geneva regarding how the Jewish deported persons were helped and about the preparation and development actions of the emigrations which were restricted to a small number of Romanian or Polish Jewish people.
The investigations of the Romanian secret police were the result of the denunciation made by the German Ambassador, von Killinger, and especially by the Delegate of the Eichmann Bureau in Romania, Richter, at the beginning of January 1944. They insinuated the existence of a plot organized by approximately 2000 Jews against the State of Romania. Initially, 200 Jews from Romania were investigated. Among them were, Dr. Wilhem Filderman, the former leader of the Romanian Jewish population, representatives of the Romanian leadership of the Zionist movement, especially from the Gordonia and Dror Habonim organizations, simple Jewish people who hosted the refugees who came from Transnistria and Poland. Among the persons involved then, today are still alive Ithaz Artzim, Dolfi Goldstein-Goren and Sigmund Schiber, mentions the author. In three months, from 200 of presumptive guilty Jews, 170 were set free and 27 persons were to be judged. The judgement of those 27 persons was to be effectuated by civil courts for the crime of currency traffic and not for the accusation of attempt against the national security. Finally, the sentencing suffered by all the 27 accused persons did not exceed the instruction period of 2-3 months, therefore, they were be liberated too.
There are several documents related to the activity of a Jew native from Balti village (Basarabia), and referring to the activity of the leader of the Zionist organization Gordonia who was at the same time, the representative of the Mossad in Romania, Sunea Tabacinic (alias Dan Saike). Sunea Tabacinic had the mission to save the deported Jews and to facilitate the emigration process for some of them. In time, Sunea Tabacinic overtook the function of General Director of the Mossad in Israel.

The Romanian Academy (from Iasi) and the Romanian Jewish Communities Federation in partnership with the History Insitute "A.D. Xenopol", The Archeology Institute and Center for the Study of Jewish History from Romania published last year at the "Hasefer" printing house the seventh volume of the "Studia et acta historiae iudaeorum Romaniae" (coodinators: Dr. Silviu Sanie and Dr. Dumitru Vitcu) related "The Cultural Observer" magazine. The magazine also mentions: "....the volume gathers a part of the communications from the symposiums dedicated to the 60 years from the Iasi progrome (28-30 June 1941) and from the Jewish Culture Day in Iasi (on 21st of June and 2nd of September 2001). The authors signing texts related to the Jewish history and culture are: Silviu Sanie, Odette Blumenfeld, Ya'akov Geller, Ion Lihaciu, Mihai-Stefan Ceausu, Dumitru Vitcu, Maria Nicoleta Turliuc, Catalin Turliuc, Avram Rosen, Lya Benjamin, Leon Esanu, Andrei Corbea, Markus Bauer, Dimitrie Olenici - on different subjects, as the immigration from Romania during the XIX century, the "Jewish issue"approach in the frame of the political discourse of the same period, the anti-Semite themes, the genocides of the Antonescu regime, the "paradigm from Bucovina" and the Cultural Jewish Institutions of the Romanian countries.
Mr. Gheorghe writes about the Country of Fire and about the explorer Iuliu Popper, as Mr. Gottfried Wagner, descendant of the composer Richard Wagner is sharply criticizing his family anti-Semite tradition, and Erhard Roy Wiehn is revealing one of the most terrible tragedies of the South European Jewish population - the Babi Iar massacre. Worthy of all interest are the sections Acta (where among its contents, the documents related to the Iasi pogrome presented by Leon Esanu can be found); Miscellanea (containing essays signed by Dumitru Hincu and Gheorghe Teodorescu) and the "Book Review" section (where are presented the new released volumes referring to the Jewish history and spirituality).

"Le Monde" newspaper published on the 13th of March the article "Romania - before and after the Shoah" containing a book review of the book-series "LE CREPUSCULE DES LIEUX. Identites juives a Czernowitz" by Florence Heymann and "LA ROUMANIE ET LA SHOAH. Destruction et survie des Juifs et des Tsiganes sous le regime Antonescu (1940-1944)" by Radu Ioanid. These two books - says the author of the book review, Alexandra Lavastine - recover the history of the Jewish community from the village of Cernauti and describe the history alteration during Marshal Antonescu's regime. Referring to the book written by Radu Ioanid, Alexandra Lavastine outlines the fact that this book is based upon "mountains of documents unexploited before" and that the historian is demonstrating the systematic character of the destruction of the Jewish community from the Cernauti village, organized at different administrative levels. The author of the book - observes the book reviewer - does not forget to mention the Romanians who opposed this strategy, beginning with the "brave mayor from Cernauti, Traian Popovici", who succeeded to stop the deportation from Cernauti to Transnistria of approximately 20.000 Jews, and in this way, saved their lives. These two books are of a present interest and are showing the sad paralysis of the memory, concludes Alexandra Lavastine as she points out that in Romania it was preferred to built statues to Marshal Ion Antonescu rather than to Traian Popovici. Last year the Govern of Romania emitted an Ordinance prohibiting the exhibition of any statue of the Marshal Ion Antonescu.