Iuliu Maniu's contribution to saving the Jews of Romaniaduring World War II Cover Image

Contribuția lui Iuliu Maniu la salvarea evreilor din România în timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial
Iuliu Maniu's contribution to saving the Jews of Romaniaduring World War II

Author(s): Simona Flavia Petridean Rațiu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political Sciences, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: anti-Semitism; democracy; humanitarian principles; Jew; political figures;

Summary/Abstract: The image of the Jew in Romanian folk history is a study of the community, related to the hierarchy of nations, which marked both the national anti-Semitic mentality and the mention in historical records of the birth of the Romanian people and its continuity, respectively, over long historical periods marked by consistent invasions of neighboring and migrant peoples. The struggle for national aspirations runs parallel to the delicate issue of the Jewish matter, which causes an internal and international instability that would call into question the cause-and effect correlation between the so-called Jewish issue and its impact on our history, through a deceptive framework of legitimacy, which determines a removal of the balance in the community. However, there is a perception of the Jew as an enemy of the economy and territorial integrity of society, in a period of formation and consolidation of the modern Romanian state, simultaneously with the evolution of the local bourgeoisie, considered by some historians, the source of the discriminatory current. Therefore, we can consider the Romanian anti-Semitism the product of centuries of allogeneic dangers that crossed the Romanian territory and marked the local souls, as a result of the social reformism, the vicissitudes of history being sometimes relentless. The study of humanity highlights an anti Semitic propaganda, which has captured and corrupted the mentality of many political representatives, who in turn gained a prestige of contemporary good taste, which would permanently and irrevocably affect the country's PR. At the same time, however, history also praises the personalities who have maintained a firm position, materialized in statements and interventions, in favor of the moral attitude, some even fighting for the price of life. History does not forget any circumstance, provided you know where to research the historical truth and in its turn it says its reason to the characters who play the role of narrative according to how each thought appropriate, giving them each a special place and grace in the chapters of Romanian historiography.

  • Issue Year: X/2022
  • Issue No: 1(35)
  • Page Range: 227-236
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian