The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania – 80 Years Later. International Conference.
The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania – 80 Years Later. International Conference.
Rangos nemzetközi konferenciának ad otthont 2024. május 23-24-én a BBTE Politika-, Közigazgatás- és Kommunikációtudományi Kara (FSPAC).
International Conference
The Holocaust in Northern Transylvania – 80 Years Later
20 years since the adoption of the Wiesel Commission Report
Cluj-Napoca, 23-24 May 2024
Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FSPAC)
at 71 General Traian Moșoiu Street, Auditorium 101
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
23 May 2024
08.00 – 08.50 – Registration
09.00 – 10.30 – Opening panel – Chair: Zoltán Tibori-Szabó
–Dragoș Mihai Hotea, State Secretary, Government of Romania, Bucharest–Kathleen Kavalec, US Ambassador to Romania, Bucharest–Reuven Azar, Ambassador of Israel to Romania, Bucharest–Peer Gebauer, Ambassador of Germany to Romania, Bucharest–Daniel David, Rector, BBU, Cluj–Judit Mureșan née Kertész and László Székely, Holocaust survivors from Cluj–Paul A. Shapiro, Deanie and Jay Stein Director of International Affairs at the USHMM: Introductory Comments (keynote speech)–Andreea Alina Mogoș, Vice-Dean, FSPAC, Cluj–Dorel Emil Ornescu, President, Cluj Jewish Community–Alexandru Florian, General Director, INSHR-EW, Bucharest: Welcoming words (keynote speech)
10.30 – 10.45 – Coffee-break
10.45 – 13.00 – Panel 1 – Chair: Ștefan Cristian Ionescu
–Radu Ioanid: The Holocaust in Romania and Hungary – Comparative Notes(keynote speech)
–Nicolae Drăgușin: Legal Attempts to Define the Jew between 1938 and1944 in Romania and Hungary. A Comparative Approach
–Mariana Hausleitner: German and Swiss Documents on the Plan to Deportthe Jews from Southern Transylvania
–Efraim Zuroff: “Operation Last Chance” in Hungary: A Final Attempt toProsecute Hungarian Nazi Collaborators (keynote speech)–Q&A Session
13.00 – 13.45 – Lunch
13.45 – 15.15 – Panel 2 – Chair: György Csepeli
–Jehuda Hartman: The Morning of March 19, 1944
–László Karsai: German Mass Murderers, Hungarian Collaborators
–Judit Molnár: The role of the German and Hungarian authorities in theStrasshof deportations
–Q&A Session
15.15 – 15.30 – Coffee-break
15.30 – 17.00 – Panel 3 – Chair: Judit Molnár
–George Eisen: Portray of a Mass Murderer: The Killing of Hungarian Jews inGalicia in 1941-1942
–Adam Kerpel-Fronius: The Difficulties of Remembering the Holocaust inNorthern Transylvania
–László Csősz: Salonta. A test case for anti-Roma mass killings in Hungary,1944-1945
–Q&A Session
17.00 – 18.00 – Moving to the Memorial Temple of the Deported Jews (former Neolog Synagogue) on Horea Street
18.00 – 19.00 – Holocaust Martyrs' Commemoration Ceremony
20.00 – 21.30 – Dinner
24 May 2024
09.00 – 10.15 – Panel 4 – Chair: Nicolae Drăgușin
–Attila Gidó: “No door handle!” The Hungarian Churches of NorthernTransylvania and the Holocaust
–Judit Kónya: Kosher meat in Hungary during the Second World War: theban on “Jewish slaughter” (1938) and its consequences in the light ofarchival and rabbinic sources
–Constantin Iordachi: Anti-Semitism and the Social Basis of Fascism: TheHungarian Arrow Cross in Comparative Perspective
–Q&A Session
10.15 – 10.30 – Coffee-break
10.30 – 11.45 – Panel 5 – Chair: Constantin Iordachi
– Virgiliu-Leon Țârău: Passing Border, Saving Lives: Considerations on the Escaping Routes and Networks initiated from Cluj in the spring of 1944
– Attila Novák: Ernő Szilágyi’s unknown legacy from the Shoah
– Gábor Ádám: Jewish cemeteries in Transylvania – a connection to the descendants of Holocaust survivors
– Q&A Session
11.45 – 13.00 – Panel 6 – Chair: László Karsai
– Frank Baron: The Auschwitz Report of Vrba and Wetzler: The Impact of Its Revelations in Switzerland and Hungary
– Fred R. Bleakley: Why is the corroboration of the Mordowicz-Rosin and the Vrba-Wetzler Auschwitz Protocols so important?
– Zoltán Tibori-Szabó: Florian Em. Manoliu's almost impossible diplomatic mission
13.00 – 13.45 – Lunch
13.45 – 15.45 – Panel 7 – Chair: Jehuda Hartman
– Anders E. B. Blomqvist: Exempted on National Merits: Economic Nationalizing and the case of the Princz Brothers
– András Tóth-Bartos: Jewish Land Property in Northern Transylvania after the Second Vienna Award
– Enikő Orsolya Nagyi: The looting of the Jewish population of Northern Transylvania and the fate of confiscated property in the light of the press during and after the Second World War
– Ștefan Cristian Ionescu: Restitution of Jewish Property in Northern Transylvania during the Early Postwar Years
– Ovidiu Creangă: Delayed Justice: Hungarian Holocaust Survivors and the Claims Conference's Struggle for their Compensation
– Q&A Session
15.45 – 16.00 – Coffee-break
16.00 – 17.30 – Panel 8 – Chair: Adam Kerpel-Fronius
– Zsombor Hunyadi: The “Minor Cultural Revolution” and Holocaust Remembrance in Romanian Yiddish Literature: The Case of Volf Tambur
– György Csepeli: The black holes of memory
– Richárd Papp: “Taboo” and absence in Holocaust memory
– Q&A Session
17.30 – 18.30 – Conclusions, closing remarks – Chair: Paul Shapiro
19.00 – 20.00 – Dinner
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will be held in the main building of the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FSPAC) at 71 General Traian Moșoiu Street, Auditorium 101.
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (IHGS) at the Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU) and the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (EW-NISHR).
PARTNER
Department of Political Science, University of Szeged, Hungary
SPONSORS AND DONORS
Covering the costs of transportation, lodging, meals, incidentals, and publicity for the conference was made possible by the following sponsors and donors. We would like to thank them for their generous support:
- Embassy of the United States of America in Bucharest, main sponsor of theconference, with special thanks to H.E. Ambassador Kathleen A. Kavalec
- World Jewish Restitution Organization, Jerusalem, Israel, co-sponsor of theconference, with special thanks to Mark Weitzman, Wesley A. Fisher, Nachliel Dison,and Rafi Barnett
- Mike and Judith Klein, Washington, DC, USA, greatly appreciated friends of ourinstitute, special gratitude for their generous donation