Antisemitism Monitor Country Profile: Romania
In January, the Bucharest city council voted down a motion calling for the removal of a bust of a Nazi collaborator.
In January, the Bucharest city council voted down a motion calling for the removal of a bust of a Nazi collaborator.
When Alfred Moses, an attorney and prominent national Jewish leader, traveled behind the Iron Curtain to Romania in 1976, the impoverished country was under the thumb of the ruthless and corrupt dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The trip changed Moses’s life, inspiring him to fight for the freedom of Romania’s Jews.