Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Benjamin, Lya
Year: 2012
Title: The Relations between Dr. W. Filderman and Marshal Ion Antonescu during the Deportation of the Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina (October-December 1941)
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
Issue: 5
Pages: 35-47
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, Transnistria, deportation, elites, politics, holocaust survivors, Antonescu regime, minority organizations
Abstract: (En) The study presents the protests of Dr. W. Filderman, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities (FUCE), against the deportation of the Jews from Bessarabia, from the northern and southern parts of Bukovina and from the Old Kingdom to Transnistria. (October-December 1941). The Jewish leader characterized the deportation as a death sentence for thousands of Jews who were not charged with anything, except being Jews. Marshal Ion Antonescu publicly responded to Dr. Filderman's interventions. He justified the deportation, blaming, and demonizing the Jews, thus contributing to the existent anti-Semitic atmosphere and questioning Filderman's credibility. However, the latter's fight for the survival of the Jews never ended.