This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts, letters, journals, drawings, literary texts and films by Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld Norman Manea, Radu Mihaileanu, among others.

PART I: LOCAL HISTORY, BEARING WITNESS The Perception of the Holocaust in Historiography and in the Romanian Media; A.Florian The Iasi Pogrom in Curzio Malaparte's Kaputt : Between History and Fiction; M.D.Gheorghiu The Cernauti Ghetto, the Deportations, and the Decent Mayor; M.Hirsch & L.Spitzer 'Bottles in the Sea': Letters of Deported Jews in Moghilev (Transnistria), November-December 1941; F.Heymann Survival and Memory: Arnold Daghani's Verbal and Visual Diaries; D.Schultz Mircea Eliade and Mihail Sebastian: Chronicle of a Broken Friendship; A.Oisteanu PART II: TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY IN LITERATURE AND FILM Paul Celan's Aesthetics of Transnational Remembrance; I.Patrut Homescapes of Childhood: Aharon Appelfeld's Life Stories of Czernowitz; E.M.Budick Norman Manea: 'I am not a Writer of the Holocaust'; J.Teodorescu Elie Wiesel's Night : The Death of Hope and Romania's Problematic Moral Stand in Relation to the Holocaust; D.Radulescu 'The people of Israel lives!' Performing the Shoah on Post-War Bucharest's Yiddish Stages; C.L.Petrescu Framing the Silence: The Romanian Jewish and Romani Holocaust in Filmic Representations; V.Glajar