I escaped Romania in the middle of the night, by bike, on February 2, 1965. It was the moment when the country was locked in a communist prison. I was seventeen years old then. Now, twenty- four years later, in the diplomatic and political frost of 1989, with the beginning …
Romanian women during the 1960’s at the time when my literary heroine, Mica, in Gift of Diamonds, was growing up in Transylvania, were “existentialist” women. Many of them were well educated, for all schools and universities in Romania were free. They were also very western in their tastes: dancing to …
Dr. Seret’s article “The Consequential Fate of the Bucharest Jews in Romania” was published in The J as part of their Holocaust Remembrance Day publication. The Consequential Fate Of The Bucharest Jews In Romania Even Adolph Eichmann had warned General Antonescu he was “too cruel and sloppy with his Jews.” …
