The wound left by the Holocaust in the Romanian collective mental state can be treated only by sincere assumption and promoting the historical truth

 ”The wound left by the Holocaust in the Romanian collective mental state can only be treated by sincere assumption and by promoting the historical truth”, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has said in a message sent on Saturday, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In this context, he has emphasized the importance of countering any form of Holocaust denial, deeming that education is ”an essential means of progress and cultivating tolerance”.

„The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, marked on 27 January, has a strong historical resonance, being the date on which the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated, and is also a reminder to all of us that the most terrible form of manifestation of antisemitism must not be repeated.

In Romania, the legionnaires’ repeated attempts to intimidate and exclude the Jewish communities from society materialized as violent, destructive and murderous actions. Also in this period, we…