Project MUSE - Jewish Quarterly Review - Transnistria, 1941-1942:

Jewish Quarterly Review
Volume 98, Number 3, Summer 2008

E-ISSN: 1553-0604 Print ISSN: 0021-6682

DOI: 10.1353/jqr.0.0009

Robert Levy
Transnistria, 1941–1942: The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns (review)
Jewish Quarterly Review - Volume 98, Number 3, Summer 2008, pp. 424-429

University of Pennsylvania Press

Project MUSE - Jewish Quarterly Review - Transnistria, 1941-1942: The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns (review) Project MUSE Journals Jewish Quarterly Review Volume 98, Number 3, Summer 2008 Transnistria, 1941-1942: The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns (review) Jewish Quarterly Review Volume 98, Number 3, Summer 2008 E-ISSN: 1553-0604 Print ISSN: 0021-6682 DOI: 10.1353/jqr.0.0009 Reviewed by Robert LevyThe Academy for Jewish Religion, California Jean Ancel. Transnistria, 1941-1942: The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns. Translated by Rachel Garfinkel and Karen Gold. Publications of Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, volumes 157-159. Tel Aviv: Goldstein-Goren Research Center, Tel Aviv University, 2003. In this outstanding three-volume collection of documents and analysis of Romania's treatment of Jews in Transnistria in 1941 and 1942, Jean Ancel offers ample proof `that will enable students, historians, and Romanian scholars to grasp the essential truth that the Antonescu regime committed genocide' during World War II (p. 16). That truth, ironically enough, is still debated among Romanians, whose government acknowledged Romania's involvement in the Holocaust for the first time only in October 2004.1 Until then, both Communist and post-Communist regimes largely ignored the overwhelming evidence of Romania's extermination of Jews within the Soviet territories it had occupied during the war. Instead, they focused on the fate of Jews in northern...