Representations of the Romanian Holocaust in testimonial literature and films: from trivialization, denial to working through the past (part 1)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v8i1.27311

Keywords:

Romanian Holocaust, memory, representations, literature, films

Abstract

Synthesizing the way in which the Romanian Holocaust has been represented in testimonial literature and films, this article deals with notions such as Holocaust trivialization and denial, as well as with “mastering the Romanian past” of the interwar period and WW2. The article is a cartography of the representations of the Romanian Holocaust; to that end, it follows the chronology of post-1945 published literary works (documentary texts, memoirs and fiction) and documentary and artistic films which were produced about the Romanian Holocaust in Romania and outside Romania.

Author Biographies

Arleen Ionescu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

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Arleen Ionescu, PhD, Habil is a Senior Researcher (Cercetător științific 1) at West University of Timișoara. Her work on James Joyce and related aspects of modernism, as well as on various aspects of historical trauma, memory studies and Holocaust studies has appeared in James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, Memory Studies, Oxford Literary Review, Parallax, Paragraph, Partial Answers, and Style. She is a joint Editor-in-Chief of Word and Text. Her books include Romanian Joyce: From Hostility to Hospitality (2014) and The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum (2017). She co-edited (with Maria Margaroni) Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma (2020) and a co-edited issue (with Simona Mitroiu) on “Holocaust Narratives in the Post-testimonial Era” (Parallax, 2023). At present she is finishing a monograph on several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WW2. (arleen.ionescu@e-uvt.ro)

Dumitru Tucan, West University of Timisoara, Romania

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Dumitru Tucan is a professor in the Department of Romanian and Classical Studies at the West University of Timișoara. He specializes in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. His recent research focuses on the culture and artifacts of 20th-century totalitarian regimes, particularly the cultural memory of the Holocaust and the Gulag in Eastern Europe. He is a contributor to the volume Panorama postcomunismului în România (Panorama of Post-Communism in Romania, 2022).

His most recent works include Dostoevsky and Gulag Literature (2021), Recuperarea istoriei traumatice și jocurile memoriei. Despre memoria Holocaustului din România (Recovering Traumatic History and the Games of Memory: On the Memory of the Holocaust in Romania, 2020), The Diary as Survival: Dehumanization, Death, and Suffering in the Holocaust Diaries of Children and Teenagers (2021), and Calea spre genocid. Antisemitismul european. Antisemitismul românesc (The Path to Genocide: European Antisemitism. Romanian Antisemitism, 2024), co-authored.

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Filmography:

Marcus, M. (1975). Actorul și sălbaticii [The actor and the wild people]. Casa de Filme Patru; Româniafilm.

Nicolaescu, S. (1985). Ringul [The boxing ring]. Centrul de Producție Cinematografică București.

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2025-05-15

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Ionescu, A., & Tucan, D. (2025). Representations of the Romanian Holocaust in testimonial literature and films: from trivialization, denial to working through the past (part 1). Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 8(1), 180–210. https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v8i1.27311