... and former FTP resistance fighter Francis Crémieux. The periodical itself is, broadly speaking, pro-Soviet. The article is mostly based on excerpts from Gheorghiu's war report "The Banks of the Dniester are Burning". 2/
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The article contains a rather shocking paragraph. It quotes far-right periodical Rivarol, which had defended Gheorghiu. The piece in Rivarol was practically denying the Romanian responsibility in the Holocaust and, allegedly, the "journalists" from Rivarol based their statements on the... 3/
... testimony of Romanian Jewish leader Wilhelm Filderman who was also living in exile.
As I already wrote on another platform, the history of diasporas is a history of the "in-between" and when it comes to Romanian exiles during the Cold War there is so much we don't know yet. 4/
In any case Gheorghiu's war report, "The Banks of the Dniester are Burning", was re-published unabridged in several uncritical editions after 1989 in both Romania and Moldova. It can easily be found. It is violently antisemitic. 5/5
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As I already wrote on another platform, the history of diasporas is a history of the "in-between" and when it comes to Romanian exiles during the Cold War there is so much we don't know yet. 4/