Evreii din Maramureş şi cel de Al Doilea Război Mondial în memoria colectivă
The Jews of Maramures and the Second World War in the Collective Memory

Summary/Abstract: In the interwar period the relations between ethnic groups living together in actual Maramureş County entered into a relatively normal path of understanding and cooperation, with minimum deviations. The influences of anti-Semitic policies instituted in Germany in 1933 arrive in Romanian Parliament, in the press, but also in the behavior of ordinary people. However, from the interviews conducted during 2005-2012 in a larger oral history research, it is an apparent tendency of witnesses to mark the year 1940 as a turning point in the lives of everyone, but also in the manifestations of inter ethnic relations. Although this study has not taken into consideration battles, attacks and bombardments, we considered that the episode of deporting Jews in all of its previous phases is included in the nightmare of the most sinister of mankind, war, giving fear and pain that will accompany lifelong those that were no fault of their central characters. Deportation is part of the evil actions that complete the picture of an “armed conflict” as war is defined in dictionaries, an improper definition to include events,consequences and trauma of a conflagration.

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