L’Holocauste dans la mémoire des habitants et des autorités publiques de Vad, commune rurale dans le Nord-Ouest de Roumanie
The Holocaust in the Memory of the Inhabitants and Public Authorities of Vad, a Rural Commune in North-Western Roman

Summary/Abstract: The small Jewish communities from the seven villages that make up nowadays the rural commune of Vad – Bogata de Jos, Bogata de Sus, Calna, Cetan, Curtuiușu Dejului, Vad, and Valea Groșilor – were brutally knocked out during the Holocaust, as were all the Jewish communities from North-Western Romania, that is. from Northern Transylvania. This author has already shown, in a study concerning the village of Bogata de Sus, published in 2020, that the atrocities of the Holocaust scarred the collective memory of one of the commune’s villages and the individual memories of the farmers from that village. The current research has carried on and enlarged that study by laying stress on how the Holocaust itself and its local victims are still present in the memory of the inhabitants of all the villages from the commune of Vad, as well as by analyzing the means by which the authorities and public institutions of postwar Vad, down to the present day, have become involved in actions meant to preserve and cultivate the memory of the local victims of the Holocaust.

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