Iliescu Admits Romania's Role in the Holocaust
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President Ion Iliescu on Tuesday  admitted Romania's complicity in the Holocaust, ending decades  of denial that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in the  country when it was an ally of Nazi Germany.
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The act of December 1, 1918, was one of national dignity, of putting trust in a better fate for our nation which stood the difficult trial of history, President Ion Iliescu said on Tuesday evening in a speech ...
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President Iliescu of Romania, who steps down this week, has made two controversial last-minute decisions designed to shock the public and the Romanian and foreign political elite.
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu will offer on Tuesday evening, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, an official reception on the occasion of Romania's National Day, to be celebrated on December 1. On November ...
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Werner Bab remembers going with his father to Berlin's Rykestrasse Synagogue in the 1930s, soon after the Nazis came to power &#151; a time, he says, when all the talk among the Jews at Sabbath services centered on politics and how to get out of Germany.
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Romania's outgoing President Ion Iliescu has revoked his pardon of a controversial miners leader jailed for deadly rampages by miners against anti-communist protesters in the 1990s, his office said.
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu on Monday said it is a natural duty for Romania to mark important historic moments, such as the one having occurred 60 years ago on August 23.
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"The authorities were merciless. They took the Roma from their homes, from the towns and army and sent them far away, to obtain a pure nation"  Romania's president apologized for the deportation of thousands of Gypsies to Nazi death camps during World War II, the first time a government official has done so publicly. via Montereyherald.com
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu on Wednesday approved a decision by its parliament to send troops to Iraq to provide security for UN staffs during the country's elections next January, said a statement from the ...
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Survivors of the Holocaust and world leaders, among them Swiss president Samuel Schmid, have remembered the horrors of the concentration camp.
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It could be two more years before Belgium s Parliament starts assessing the role some officials played in the Holocaust, but the process of examining the country s responsibility in the wartime deportation of ...
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu believes that the technical closure of entry negotiations with the European Union is an extremely important moment on Romania's path to European and Euro-Atlantic integration, the ...
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Romania observed its first national day to honor victims of the Holocaust on Tuesday, more than 60 years after the start of deportations of its Jews to death camps.
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Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana on Tuesday signed the condolence book opened at the embassy of the Russian Federation in Bucharest in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan, North ...
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PETAH TIKVA, Israel  - She escaped the Holocaust at age six by hiding from the Nazis under a pile of dead bodies in her Ukrainian village.
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Last June, President Ion Iliescu announced that "within the borders of Romania, there was no Holocaust between 1940 and 1945." But Leizer Finkelstein doesn't much care what Iliescu thinks.
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Romania marks the Holocaust for the first time after recognising that thousands of Jews died on its territory.