HOW THE CONDAMNATION
The Romanian people, still reeling from the convulsion
of the Revolution of December 1989, suddenly realized that they are being accused of anti-Semitism and Legionarism. From where did these accusations come and who insinuated them? How and by whom was this done? In the entire country one did not observe any event that could be considered as a revival of Legionarism or anti-Semitism, two notions often associated with malicious intent by a certain anti-National conspiracy.
From what we know, up to the time of the statements of Prime Minister Petru Roman in March 1990 and President Ion lliescu in June 1990, the problem of Legionaries did not appear in the political arena. First, during Petru Roman's interview of March 22, 1990 with the great newspaper New York Times, in which he refers to the events in Targu Mures, he accuses the Vatra Romaneasca as having been manipulated by elements of the Iron Guard, which, he states, has been revived in this region. Mr Roman added that the distribution of manifests of this orga-nization was a joint affair. Roman declared verbatim: "Lead by the local mayors, the attack by the Romanian villagers who came to Targu Mures was the result of a manipulation of public opinion by extremist elements", (he was referring to "Vatra Romaneasca", which has a strong popularity in this region.) "A revival of the Iron Guard , a Fascist and anti-Semitic movement, that came into power shortly before World War II, could also have played a role," stressed Mr Roman and other governmental functionaries.
Mr Roman continues: "Manifests of the Iron Guard, under the patronage of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, were common"apparitions" during the last months in this region." This ends the declarations of Petru Roman. We emphatically state that ele-ments of the Iron Guard did not exist to manipulate the activities of the Vatra Romaneasa, and that not one single Legionary manifest appeared. On what facts did Petru Roman base these affirmations? With a clear conscience we can state that the declarations made to the New York Times by the former Prime Minister of Romania are of a totally malicious nature. They are not distorsions or exagerations but pure inventions and lies. What purpose did these declarations serve? The ethnic conflict from Targu Mures served only as a pretext so that Mr. Roman could make the great revelation of the supposed reappearance of the Iron Guard, which existed, at that time, only in his imagination.
Soon after, President Ion Iliescu staged the miner's demonstration of June 13-15, 1990, which was "motivated" by the false accusation that the Legionaries intended to carry out a "coup d'etat". This is another lie as crass and malicious as that of Petru Roman's statements during the events in Targu Mures, and made with the same intent, to create a problem of anti-semitism and Legionary danger that would later motivate the launching of the planned action by the anti-National and anti-Legionary conspi-racy, which was in the weaving stage at that time.
These two events, the miner's demonstration and the incidents in Targu Mures, shook the soul of the nation from its foundation. The ad-hoc Parliamentary Commission did not find any participation by the Legionaries in the bloody events of June 13-15, 1990 in Bucharest or in Targu Mures. There was no Legionary participation in either of these events and not a single Legionary manifest was seen. In spite of this, Iliescu and Roman remained undisturbed in their functions as leaders - acting as though their mouths and feet did not "stink" and as if they had committed no crime against the nation.
The newspapers in Romania mentioned a letter from some individuals who pretended to be former Legionaries, which was addressed to a local newspaper in Bacau. They threatened the Jewish community with their reappearance to take the law into their own hands and seek justice against some alleged Jewish theories. No name, signature or deed was published, but the newspapers printed it because the anti-Legionary and anti-National conspiracy needed evidence and proof by which they could demonstrate that there was a revival of Legionarism and, consequently, anti-Semitism.
These were the events that served to initiate the planned anti-Legionary campaign and, at the same time, the anti-Semitic trend which, "By God", if the Legionaries reappeared, there also must be anti-Semitism.
The people from Targu Mures did not observe the presence of Legionaries in their conflicts with the Hungarians and not one manifest of the Iron Guard was seen, but the Ameri-cans and the rest of the free world, through the columns of the prestigious newspaper fom New York and the commentaries relating to the events in Bucharest during June 13-15, 1990, were enraged when they learned about these demeaning accusations. Therefore, through the authorized voice of Prime Minister, the free world was "informed" that in Romania the "Fascist" organi-zation Garda de Fier, (The Iron Guard) reappeared and anti-Semitism was "revived". This was the sole scope pursued by the declaration of these two leaders: to tell the free world that in Romania Legionarism and anti-Semitism was "revived". As a consequence, the free world took an attitude that if we have a new wave of anti-Semitism in Romania, the country would not benefit from help and favors from the West, such as political support, financial credits, favorite clauses, etc. etc. In this way leverage was created to politically pressure Romania to becomereceptive to the demands of the manipulators, as we will see later in the declarations of Elie Wiesel.
Furthermore, the declarations of Petru Roman, published in the New York Times, served another purpose: Mr I.J Fercsey, a columnist of Hungarian origin, was happy to use the affirma-tions of Mr. Roman in an article titled "Tragedy in Transylvania", enabling him to accuse the Romanian nation of Chauvinism, Fascism, anti-Hungarian barbarism and acts of savagery never encountered before against the Hungarian population of Transyl-vania.
After the declarations of these two Romanian leaders, a number of article appeared in the Romanian press rivaling the attacks against the Legionaries and the defamation of the Legionary Movement. The first prize for maliciousness belongs to the magazine "22". In the plans of the conspiracy these articles were meant to create a hostile atmosphere against any rightist expression or movement. Once this arena of political discussions was opened by the declarations of Roman and Iliescu, attacks from the press and statements by other ambitious politicians inevitably followed.
Soon afterwards came the Commemoration of July 1, 1991 in memory of the 400.000 (a fictitious number) Jewish victims of the holocaust that occured on Romanian territory. Rabbi Moses Rosen affirms "that so many Jews died in Romania but, out of fear, we could not make this number known until now (July 1, 1991). So much terror was in Romania against the Jews from 1941 to this day that we were afraid to even shed tears for these victims." Moses Rosen was overcome by uncontrolled bursts of anger when he learned that the Parliament intended to rehabi-litate General Antonescu by honoring his memory with as moment of silence. For Moses Rosen the General turned over-night from a saviour of Jews to a ferocious anti-Semit. As long as Antonescu governed he did everything he could to protect the Jews from the Germans and succeded in saving tens of thousands of Jewish lives. These facts are recognized by everyone all over the world, including the Jews (up to Rabbi Rosen's "change of mind"), as well as Matatias Carp, the author of "The Black Book", in which he tries to describe the tragedy of the Jews in Romania. Even Sabin Manuila, the Director of the Institute for Statistics in Romania, together with W. Filderman, the President of the Jewish Community in Romania, who together edited in 1957 in Rome a booklet in English language, with the title "Regional Development of the Jewish Population of Romania". They both agreed that Antonescu did everything he could to save the Jews from the claws of the Nazis. Antonescu even went further, insti-gated by the Jews he persecuted the Legionaries, according to the statements of Matatias Carp, and now those he saved from death come to attack him. This often happens in the world: "Those that you do not let die, they will not let you live." says and old wise Romanian proverb forgotten by Antonescu.
Some data from the Works of Manuila and Filderman
1. The total number of the Jewish people in Romania decreased considerably in the last twenty years. These losses are attributed to:
- Cession of territories of the country.
- To the anti-Jewish atrocities during the war in the interior and exterior of the country.
- To atrocities committed by the armed forces and foreign authorities that, for periods of time, controlled Romanian territories.
- And last, due to an intensive and prolongedimmigration during the last two decades.
2. In the collection of statistics and data, the changes of the international political events had a great influence upon the realities between the declared ethnic nationalities: Yidish as a mother language and Judaism as a religion in different part of Romania. The relation between these two factors are esential in the consideration of statistical data.
3. Yidish as a mother language and Judaism as a religion was declared by 68.5% of the Jewish population of the entire country. This percentage varied time-wise as well as location-wise. It is much smaller in the census from the year 1956 than that of 1930 (23.7%, as compared to 71.2%), when one calculates the mother language-nationality relationship. We chose this criterion as the basis for comparison because in the census of 1956 one did not register the religious denomination.
4. The numerical reduction of the Jews in Romania (dead or vanished) was calculated at 15.000 for the Old Kingdom, southern part of Transylvania and the southern part of Bucovina; at 103.919 for Basarabia, northern part of Bucovina and the Hertza territory; and 90.295 for the northern part of Transyl-vania that was ceded to Hungary. For the territory of Romania in its borders from 1939, the losses of the Jewish population (dead or vanished) was estimated at 209.214 from the total Jewish population in Romania.
The losses ar attributed to:
- 2%K to the Romanian administration,
- 13%K to Romanian-German military actions,
- 12%K to actions of the Hungarian Government.
5. The general conclusions lead to the fact that no othercountry, which was temporarily under German domination, could demonstrate a proportion of survivor as great as that in Romania.
On page 15 of the Manuila-Filderman brochure is a map of Romania which indicates the ceded territories in 1940. On this map, in the territory left to Romania, the authors declare: "This territory had 312,972 Jews in 1930. By the end of the war the number increased to 355.972, that is 13.7%K" (This territory had 312,972 Jews in 1930. Until the end of the war their number grew to 355,972, which means a 13,7%K increase. This statement from the brochure of Manuila-Filderman presents us with the true story of the "holocaust" of the Jews in Romania. Instead of being killed, they increased by 13,7%K) Faced with these numbers, on what did Moses Rosen base his exaggerations? Let us go back to his statement made on July 1, 1991, and published the follow-ing day in the New York Times - a newspaper always at his disposal:
"The number of the dead reached 400.000, about which we could not talk until now except outside of the country or only between ourselves. They died and it was forbidden for us to cry for them," declared Rabbi Moses Rosen. Where in a forreign country did this number of 400.000 murdered Jews appear? As a matter of fact, under Antonescu, when the Jews conspired with him against the Legionaries, as related by Matatias Carp, and later under the government of Ana Pauker, Kishinevski, Moghioros, Brucan, Barladeanu, etc. composed of 80%K Jews, and with the country occupied by Soviet troops, when the prisons were filled with Romanians arrested by Jews and Hungarians who formed the skeleton of the Security State police, the Rabbi Moses Rosen was affraid to denounce the victims of the holocaust!!
Even the numbers given by Manuila and Filderman are not correct. These numbers are exaggerated because, during theso-called rebellion in January 1941, they list 3.000 dead, when in reality it was between 120 and 140, as evidenced by the official statement of the Legionary Movement. To complete the picture, we would like to quote Mr. Simion Ghinea from the "Express Magazine" Number 4, where he states that in spite of all the efforts by Antonescu, with everything at his disposal, to impli-cate many more Legionaries in crimes and irregularities in the administration affairs, not one single Legionary was accused of having any conflict with any Jew. Why? Because there was not one single incident. It was the scum of the society and provoking agents that appeared on the scene and committed crimes that could later be placed on the shoulders of the Legionaries. But the press did not take into account the decisions of the Justice Department and listened to the conspiring groups, and continued to attribute these crimes to the Legionary Movement.
To show how false are the accusations of Rabbi Moses Rosen and that he was afraid to denounce and make public the number of supposed dead in the holocaust in Romania, we give a list of Jews that formed the leadership of Romania in the first years of communist domination, (the data was obtained from "The Plot Against the Church". by Maurice Pinay, page 73-77.
1. Ana Pauker, alias Anna Rabinson - Minister of Foreign Affairs and number one agent of Moscow in Bucharest.
2. Ilka Wassermann, The actual Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
3. Josef Kishinevski, alias Jakob Broitman, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.
4. Teohari Georgescu, alias Burah Tescovich , Minister ofthe Interior.
5. Avram Bunaciu, alias, Abraham Gutman - Secretary General of the National Assembly. The actual leader of the Assembly.
6. Lothar Radaceanu, alias Lothar Wuertzel, Minister at Large.
7. Miron Constantinescu, alias Mehr Kohn, born in Galati, Minister of Mining and member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.
8. Moises Haupt, General, Military Commander of Bucharest.
9. Laurian Zamfir, alias Laurian Rechler, General, Chief of Security, born in Braila.
10. Heinz Gutman, Chief of the Civil Secret Service.
11. William Suder, alias Wilman Suder, Chief of Counter Espionage.
12. Colonel Roman, alias Walter Roman - Father of the Prime Minister Petru Roman, Chief of the Department of Edu-cation, Culture and Propaganda of the Army (Walter Roman's father was Rabbi Neulander, an old communist).
13. Alexander Moghioros, Minister of Nationalities. A Jew from Hungary.
14. Alexandru Badan, alias Alexander Braunstein. Chief of the Commission to Controll the Foreigners.
15. Maior Levin, a Jew and former officer of the Russian Red Army, Chief Censor of the Press.
16. Colonel Holban, alias Moscovich, Chief of Security in Bucharest.
17. George Silviu, alias Gersch Gollinger, Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior.
18. Erwin Voiculescu, alias Erwin Weinberg, Chief of the Passport Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
19. Gheorghe Apostol, alias Gerschwin, President of the Workers' Syndicate.
20. Stupineanu, alias Stappnau, Chief of Economic Espio-nage.
21. Emmerick Stoffel, A Jew from Hungary, Romanian Ambassador in Switzerland.
22. Harry Fainaru, alias Hersch Feiner, Chief Councilor in the Romanian Embassy in the United States.
23. Ida Szillagy - A Jewess, friend of Ana Pauker (the actual head of the Romanian Embassy in London).
24. N. Lazarescu, alias Burah Lazarovich - In charge of Foreign Relations of Romania in Paris.
25. Simon Oieru, alias Schaeffer, Under Secretary of State.
26. Aurel Baranga, alias Ariel Leibovich, General Inspector in the Department of Arts.
27. Liuba Kishinevki, alias Liuba Broitman, Head of the Anti-Fascist Women's Association of Romania.
28. Lew Zeiger - A Jew. Director General of the Ministry of Economy.
29. Doctor Zeider, Legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
30. Marcel Breslau, alias Mark Breslau, General Director of the Department of Arts.
31. Silviu Brucan, alias Bruekker, Chief editor of the newspaper "Scanteia", (the official publication of the Communist Party). He was in charge of the propaganda campaign to spread disinformation to the people in regard to the Communist leadership. At the same time, he was in charge of fabricating the anti-Semitic campaign in Romania.
32. Samoila, alias Samuel Rubenstein, The Governing Director of the newspaper "Scanteia".
33. Horia Liman, alias Lehman, Assistent editor of the newspaper "Scanteia".
34. Enginer Schnapp , a Jew. Governing Director of the newspaper "Romania Libera" (Free Romania).
35. Jehan Mihai, alias Jakob Michael, Chief of the FilmIndustry in Romania.
36. Alexandru Graur, alias Alter Brauer, General Director of Romanian Broadcasting System.
37. Mihai Roller, a Jew who was born in Soviet Union. President of the Romanian Academy and the author of the falsi-fied Romanian history.
38. Professor Weigel, The tyrant of the University of Bucharest, who was in charge of the elimination of the anti-communist students from the universities.
39. Professor Levin Bercovich , another tyrant of the University of Bucharest, who controlled the teaching staff and who came from Russia.
40. Silviu Iosifescu, alias Samson Josifovich, The Jew that censored Eminescu, Alexandri and Vlahuta and eliminated parts of their literary work which was not in harmony with the Com-munists.
41. Joan Winter, alias Jakob Winter, The second Marxist literary critic of Romania.
42. Alexander Sencovich, Misha Levin and Sam Asriel (alias Serban) Secretaries of the General Association of Workers.
This is only a partial list of the communist Jews in key positions in the Romanian Government.
In conclusion, with Romanians in prisons and with the Jews and Hungarians in control of the country, Moses Rosen, the Red Rabbi, was afraid to mention the victims of the Jewish Holcaust and the terror was so great that he was afraid to shed tears for his brothers! What so-called "threats" created such a menacing problem to freighten the Rabbi?
In a report from the present Parliament of Romania on the question "Who installed the Communists in Transylvania?" we find the following: "In general, in the region of Cluj, as well as in other regions of Romania, public opinion is actually hostile to the new order which tries to impose itself." (From the Archives of theState, Telegram Number 452, dated November 18, 1944).
"In the region of Cluj, the population numberd 1,153,026, from which 20,4%K were Hungarians. In December 1945, the Com-munist Party was composed of 288 Romanians, 2490 Hungarians, 195 Jews and 8 Germans." (Excerpt from the State Archives, Volume I, Dossier I, File 13). The question is: Who exerted terror and against whom when in the Communist Party (that is, in the terror instrument of the Communist regime) percentage-wise Jews and Hungarians were 20 times more than Romanians, meanwhile the prisons were filled up almost entirely (98%K) with Romanians?
Recently, Renaud Girard, a correspondent in Budapest, wrote an article in the magazine from Paris "La Vie Interna-tionale", entitled "The Itinerary Of A Dissident Who Became A Representative". This article is an interview with Gaspar Tamas, a Jew, who states" "I was born in Cluj in 1948 into a communist family, who were deeply engaged in politics, and where I received a substantial Leninist education. Today, one remembers the weakness of the Romanian Communist Party after the war, but forgets about the Hungarian Communist Party members in Transylvania, whose numbers were over 600.000. The Transylvanians of Hungarian origin played a crucial role in the implementation of the Com-munist Party in Romania. Only after twenty years did the ethnic purification of the Party begin." Was Rabbi Rosen afraid of these people?
Today Gaspar Tamas is a representative of the Parliament in Budapest and prides himself of the active role he and his family played in the communization of Romania - a role that was not exceptional in view of the fact that all the Jews worked, with the same vigor, to install communism in Romania. In spite of the unanimously recognized realities, Rabbi Moses Rosen states "thateven under the reign of communism the Jews were so severely perse-cuted that they could not even shed tears for those who died". The accusations of Rabbi Rosen are mentioned extensively in the July 2, 1991 edition of the New York Times and surpass any other malicious statements.
On the following day, July 3, 1991, another article appeared in New York Times regarding the declarations of Elie Wiesel, who was called to Romania by Moses Rosen to help sup-port his lies. He brought to the attention of the public the following statement: "I address my words to the leaders of the country (Romania). I hope that you realize that it is clear that your representatives face great difficulties in the world in their attempt to mobilize sympathy and political, as well as economical support for you. Your image is not one of the best in foreign countries. This you have to know: You have to know that if the anti-Semitics are not publicly denounced, you will suffer. You will be isolated. The West follows you with raised eyebrows and with fear and trepidation."
A week later, on July 11, 1991, we are shocked with Proposed Resolution, Number 52, which requests the condem-nation of the Romanian Government and the Romanian people for anti-Semitism and Xenophobia. The Resolution was sub-mitted before the American Senate for approval. The Resolution, in its original form, is as follows:
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