ISRO-Press Newsletter Excerpts Newsletter #300, Wednesday 3 December 2003
The exhibition "The Jews in Romania during the Holocaust"
The Jewishgen.Romania database is developping
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The exhibition "The Jews in Romania during the Holocaust"
The exhibition of photographs and documents "The Jews in Romania during the Holocaust" was opened during the 10th edition of the "Gaudeamus" Book Fair (Bucharest, November 26-30, 2003), organized by the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society. The authors of the exhibition are historians Lya Benjamin and Andrei Oisteanu. The materials displayed on the twenty thematic panels came from the Archive of the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania, the History Museum of the Jews in Romania, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and from other official or private archives. The exhibition also comprised a presentation of the books published these last years on the topic of the Holocaust in Romania and in Europe.
The event was opened on November 26, by Dragos Seuleanu (general manager of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society), researcher Andrei Oisteanu and parliamentary deputy Dorel Dorian. President Ion Iliescu visited the exhibition in the last day of the book fair. The exhibition was awarded the Prize of Excellence of the "Gaudeamus" Book Fair 2003.
The Jewishgen.Romania database is developping
The genealogical database of the Romanian-born Jews continues its increase on the website http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania.
About 40,000 entries were added, including the list of the voters for the Bessarabian Duma in the Balti and Hotin districts (1906-1907). Data can be found on the towns of Falesti, Riscani, Sculeni, Briceni, Lipcani, Edinet, and Orhei (which now belong to the Republic of Moldavia), as well as on some localities that are currently in Ukraine. 100,000 extra records are available, awaiting volunteers for processing and introduction in the database.
Among the data recently introduced are the results of a census of the Jewish men born in Romania in 1881 and 1882 (who were too old to be sent to the labor camps), a census that was ordered by Ion Antonescu in 1942. Also, results were found on a census of the men born in Romania between 1893 and 1921 who were to be sent to labor camps; this list is over 300 pages long and has over 8,000 entries.
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