Faculty Articles
Collective amnesia of the Jewish Holocaust in Romania and Current narratives of national identity
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The New School Psychology Bulletin
ISSN
1931-793X
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Abstract
This article represents a summary of a recent grant proposal submitted to the Romanian Government. The proposal deals with the intergenerational basis of collective amnesia about the Romanian Holocaust and its effects on the current narratives of national identity in Romania. In 1930, Romania was home to seven hundred fifty thousand Jews. By the end of World War II two hundred fifty thousands Jews and nineteen thousands Gypsies are estimated to have been murdered under Romanian jurisdiction (Butnaru, 1992; Ioanid, 2000). The widespread absence of recollections about these events from Romanians' collective memory is the focus of my project.
Volume
1
First Page
35
Last Page
42
NSUWorks Citation
Cuc, A.
(2003). Collective amnesia of the Jewish Holocaust in Romania and
Current narratives of national identity. The New School Psychology Bulletin, 1, 35-42.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/1353