THE FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF ROMANIA SUFFERING, COMPASSION, SOLIDARITY The Scrib Publishing House, 2009 Coordinators: Dr. AUREL VAINER, FEDROM President DOREL DORIAN, writer, member of FEDROM’s Board of Directors Cover: Albert Poch Technical Secretariat: Valentin Cohen Silvian Horn Iulia Deleanu Valentin Iancu Image Editor: Alexandru Câlţia Stylization of the 5th part: Nedeea Burcă Translation and correction of the English version: George Weiner Make-up: Gabriel Ionescu Acknowledgements: Anca Ciuciu, CSIER researcher Elena Marinescu, Secretary General of the Editing Team, the Jewish Reality Magazine Luciana Friedmann, editor, the Jewish Reality Magazine Eva Galambos, editor, the Jewish Reality Magazine Cosmin Miuţe, techno-editor, the Jewish Reality Magazine Mihaela Popov, historian, the Alexandru Safran Library Ştefan Iureş, Director, the Hasefer Publishing House Captions of the cover photos: - The high column of the Memorial “Zahor”, from the Memorial Complex made by Peter Jacobi - Menorah for the commemoration of the Holocaust, by Architect Mihail Caff e - The Monument made by sculptor Martin Iszac from Târgu Mureş This work was published with the support of the JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE © The Scrib Publishing House, 2009 All rights reserved The Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania Printed in Romania by SC DESKTOP PUBLISHING SRL
[email protected] 0726-22.11.91 ISBN 978-606-92171-2-2 Summary October 9, a Day Not to Forget ............................................ 7 Part I – Inauguration Ceremony of the Holocaust Memorial 1. The joy of return: 12 Torah (Bible) Scrolls return to Romania .......................................................................... 11 Leaders of the Jewish Community from Romania .................... 11 at the parade of the Torah Scrolls .............................................. 11 Presentation – by Actress Maia Morgenstern .........................