The Image of the Jew from Northern Bessarabia in the Gendarmerie’s 1940 Investigations
The Image of the Jew from Northern Bessarabia in the Gendarmerie’s 1940 Investigations
Author(s): Daniel-Valeriu BobocSubject(s): Jewish studies, Military history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania ELIE WIESEL
Keywords: Gendarmerie, Bessarabia; 1940; image of the Jew; anti-Semitism;
Summary/Abstract: In 1940, after the withdrawal from Bessarabia, the Romanian Gendarmerie carried out investigations in order to establish how it had been achieved, whether there had been humancasualties or material losses, and what attitude the local population and the Soviet Army had displayed towards the gendarmes. The general survey brought about an image of the Jew depicted through ideological stereotypes: a communist, a traitor, a saboteur of the withdrawal efforts of the Romanian institutions’ representatives. The goal of this study is to analyze how this imaginary Jew was drawn up and whether such an image is in keeping withthat of the real Jew, resulting from text analyses and from the study of the political life of the Northern Bessarabian Jews from the interwar period.
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
- Issue Year: XII/2020
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 41-72
- Page Count: 31
- Language: English
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