The conference ”The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews” at RCI Tel Aviv

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The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv The conference The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews at RCI Tel Aviv
  • 8 May 2024 - 8 May 2024
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To mark 80 years since the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania, the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Embassy of Romania to the State of Israel, is organizing and hosting, on May 8th, starting with 17 hours, the conference called The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania - 80 years since the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews.

The event will be held in English and Hebrew, in the presence of two guests from Romania: Novák Csaba-Zoltán, president of the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, and Attila Gidó, historian and researcher within the same institution. H.E. Radu Ioanid, the Ambassador of Romania to the State of Israel, as well as an acclaimed historian of the Holocaust and former director of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, will deliver the keynote speech. Israeli historians Raphael Vago (historian and professor at Tel Aviv University) and Alexander Avram, director of the "Hall of Names and the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names" at the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, will also be present.

The program of the event will include:

- Introductory remarks: Martin Salamon, director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv;
- H. E. Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to the State of Israel: "The Holocaust, a European project: Northern Transylvania and Maramureș in a regional context" (keynote speaker);
- Novák Csaba-Zoltán, director of the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (RIRNM): "The role of RIRNM in preserving the identity of national minorities in Romania. Researching the History of the Jewish Community";
- Alexander Avram, director of the "Hall of Names and the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names", Yad Vashem: "The Holocaust in Romania - chronology and general framework";
- Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv University: "The Holocaust of the Jews of Northern Transylvania - historical context, stages, specificities";
- Attila Gidó, researcher within the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities: "The post-Holocaust period. Presentation of the volume 20 00 names. Records of deportees from Northern Transylvania who remained alive".

The event is part of the series of events organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv dedicated to the commemoration of 80 years since the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania.

The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (RIRNM) is an important institution for inter and multidisciplinary study and research of the preservation, development and expression of ethnic identity, sociological, historical, cultural, linguistic, religious or other aspects of national minorities and other ethnic communities in Romania.