EHRI Seminar in Romania: Ruth Glasberg Gold Impressed with Talk about Transnistiria

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

On November 2-4, 2022, the EHRI Seminar: “A Multilevel Approach to the Holocaust in Romania“, organized by the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, took place in Bucharest, Romania.

The 3-day seminar provided an overview of methods, sources, new research topics, and approaches to the Holocaust in Romania. The schedule included speakers from Israel, Romania, the USA, and England.

Speakers at the EHRI Seminar were: Radu Ioanid, Tibori Szabó Zoltán, Dallas Michelbacher, Ionela Ana Dăsculțu, Nicolae Drăgușin, Liviu Cărare, Rachel Pistol, Irinel Rotariu, Ruth Glasberg Gold, Doru Liciu.

The presentations covered topics such as:

  • The Particularities of the Holocaust in Europe and Romania 
  • The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania 
  • Jewish forced labor in Romania 
  • Jewish Orphans of Transnistria 
  • Public Debates and Legislative Initiatives on Romanian Citizenship for Romanian Jews
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archival resources on the Holocaust Romania 
  • The Popricani mass grave 
  • Diplomatic Archives and the Study of the Holocaust in Romania 
  • The EHRI Portal.

Special attention was there for a prominent guest speaker, Mrs. Ruth Glasberg Gold, who survived the Holocaust in Transnistria. She talked about her memories of her home before the Second World War, her experiences as a child in Transnistria, and her life in the postwar period.

The eight participants (see image above) from Romania, Israel, Italy, the USA, Germany, Estonia, and Poland, also received a guided tour of the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest and visited the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Romania.

The next EHRI seminar organized by EHRI partners, the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be held in Iasi, Romania, in June 2023.

Images: courtesy the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania.

Image Ruth Glasberg Gold from http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/stories/ruth-trans/