Repatrierea deportaţilor evrei din Transnistria şi chestiunea integrării lor în România postbelică
The Repatriation of the Deportated Jews from Transnistria and the Question of Their Integration in the Postwar Romania

Summary/Abstract: The study refers to the issue of repatriation of deported Jews in Transnistria in 1940-1941. Repatriation process began in 1941, but this problem was delayed by Antonescu’s regime, so that very few Jews have actually been repatriated. While the deportees were stripped for their entire possessions by Romanian state in 1941, repatriation costs had to be covered by the Jews community from the country. The second phase of the repatriation of deportees Jews took place after the removal of the Antonescu regime. This time they were helped by the Romanian government, in addition to several organization of Jews, such as Jewish Joint Distibution Committee. The most difficult problem was related to the restitution of properties confiscated by the former. A good part of those who profited from "romanization laws" were high military officials. Thus, although the decree-law of December 1944 stipulated the restitution of property confiscated, some veiled political groups expressed their opposition to the repair of law. Then came the threat from the new communist regime which determined a process of mass emigration of Jews from Romania to the West.

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