Book review of Antonio Faur, Un deceniu din existenta evreilor bihoreni (1942-1952): contributii istoriografice si documentare (A decade from the existence of the Jews from Bihor County: historiographical and documentary contributions)

Abstract

The book brings in the scientific world new unpublished data about the condition of the Jews from Oradea during the times of Holocaust and its aftermath. At the beginning of the book, the author makes the overall portrait of the Jewry of Romania after the Holocaust, consulting in this sense historical sources from the local Archives from Oradea, remarquing that although antisemite feelings continued to exist, the majority of Romanian population was not antisemite. The book describes many cases when the Romanian nationals saved the Jews from deportation.