The Ghetto Trial of Transylvania

WED, September 24, 6-8 pm | Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC The Ghetto Trial of Northern Transylvania The details for the implementation of the Final Solution of the Jewish question in Europe were worked out at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. "Nowhere in Nazi-dominated Europe was the war against the Jews waged as swiftly and cruelly as in the northeastern part of wartime Hungary, including Northern Transylvania" (Randolph Braham). Between May 15 and June 9, 1944, approximately 100,000 North Transylvanian Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where most of them were murdered after their arrival. The details of this murderous campaign were revealed in the documents used during the war crimes trials held in Cluj in 1946.

The materials of the trial were meticulously investigated by Oliver Lustig, himself a survivor of the Holocaust and a chronicler of the tragedy that had befallen the Jews of Hungary during the Nazi era. His two-volume documentary work – The Ghetto Trial of Northern Transylvania – is an invaluable work of great historical importance, shedding light on one of the most horrific chapters of the Holocaust – the destruction of the Jews in Hungarian-ruled Northern Transylvania on the eve of Allied victory in 1944. It was published in Bucharest in 2007 under the auspices of the Association of the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust in Romania with the support of the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania.
At the invitation of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, Oliver Lustig will reveal details about his work on Wednesday, September 24, 6:00-8:00pm, at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. He will be joined by Liviu Beris, President of the Asscociation of the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust in Romania, and Randolph Braham, Director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Oliver Lustig (b. 1926, Soimeni), a distinguished Romanian writer and journalist, dedicated most of his career to the subject of the Holocaust. He is a Birkenau-Auschwitz and Dachau Holocaust survivor. HARRIMAN INSTITUTE
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