treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and Romania during the Post-Communist era
TitleThe treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and Romania during the Post-Communist era
Author
Call number940.531809439/0026
Object number04441
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherThe Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Graduate Center/The City University of New York, Social Science Monographs,Boulder
Year of publication
2004
Physical description215p.,list of contributors
MaterialBook
Series titleHolocaust Studies Series,East European Monographs,No.DCXLV
ISBN0880335432
Description
Includes 6 studies by leading experts on the history of the Jews in East Central Europe. Describes the attempt in post-CommunistHungary to distort and denigrate the Holocaust often by respectable public figures. They appear resolved to explain and justify Hungary's link to Nazi Germany, rehabilitate the Horthy regime and absolve the country of any responsibility for the destruction of approx. 550,000 of its Jewish citizens