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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2008 22(1):49-73; doi:10.1093/hgs/dcn002
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The Use and Abuse of the Holocaust: Historiography and Politics in Moldova*

Diana Dumitru

State Pedagogical University of Moldova


  Abstract

Since the collapse of the USSR the historical profession in Moldova has changed to reflect new political circumstances and interests. This revolution profoundly influences writing about World War II, Romania and the Antonescu dictatorship, the experience of Bessarabia in the 1940s, and the destruction of Romania's Jews and Roma. Certain nationalist historians minimize the crimes of the Antonescu regime and its supporters, while the present Communist Party, its supporters, and others stress them. How the study of the Holocaust fares in this politicized atmosphere forms the subject of the present study.

* This research was made possible through a Rosenzweig Family Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I am grateful to those who contributed to the improvement of this article through their expert advice, including especially Radu Ioanid, Samuel Aroni, Vladimir Solonari, Donald Raleigh, and the anonymonous referees for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Of course, all responsibility for errors or omissions is my own.


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