Book review: Antonio Faur, Implicarea diplomatului roman dr. Mihai Marina in actiunile de salvare a evreilor din Transilvania de Nord si Ungaria (1944) (The involvment of the Romanian diplomat Dr. Mihai Marina in the actions of salvations of the Jews from Northern Transylvania and Hungary (1944))

Abstract

In his publications concerning the fate of the Jews from North-Western Transylvania under Hungarian occupation during the years 1940-1944, Antonio Faur tried to defend the idea that, although the faith of the Jews in this region was tragic, their majority being deported to concentration camps in Germany and Poland, there was always a benevolent category of Romanians who protected the Jews from Transylvania and helped a few of them to escape in Romania where the regime was not leading towards their annihilation. Sometimes, even the authorities were involved in giving the Jews a helping hand to escape, and this was the story of Mihai Marina, the Romanian consul to Oradea.