The Forgotten Holocaust
Romania, 1940-1944
$54.60
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2027
Summary
Romania’s role in the Holocaust was a complex and terrible one, overlooked in comparison to the rest of Europe and only now being reckoned with.
Dan Stone’s remarkable new book tells the full story of Romania in the dark period during the Second World War, from when it joined the Axis powers until it switched sides in 1944. As a country with a large Jewish population and several other notable minority groups, the survival of almost half of this population has led many to infer that Ro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241688557 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241688558 |
| Author: | Dan Stone |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 156mm x 240mm |
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Critics Review
The history that Dan Stone tells here shows human beings at their very worst. Unlike the German ‘scientific’ cleansing of the race, Stone shows that the Romanian genocide was messy, corrupt, and unimaginably violent. This is a narrative until now too little understood, but it is also a reminder of how swiftly societies can descend to lethal racial discrimination. There are important lessons here for Europe today – Richard Overy
Dan Stone
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous academic articles and books, including The Holocaust: An Unfinished History and The Liberation of the Camps.
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