Promise - Museum of the Holocaust in Romania

Yesterday, in Jerusalim, Prime Minister Tariceanu said: "The tragic meaning of the Holocaust must be known and understood by all the citizens and by the youths, especially". In the same context, he announced that, for the upcoming period of time, a Museum of the Holocaust is to be initiated in Romania as well.

The Prime Minister makes promises in Israel

Prime-Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu’s yesterday speech in Jerusalem revealed promises regarding the initiation of a Museum of the Holocaust in Romania. The speech was part of the "The Remembrance of the Past. The Modeling of the Future" Conference.

OFFENSIVE. Prime-Minister Tariceanu considers that all the citizens, and the youth, especially, must know and understand the meaning of the Holocaust.

In his speech, Prime-Minister Tariceanu said that "the tragic meaning of the Holocaust must be known and understood by all the citizens and by the youths, especially, in order to annul any possible anti-Semite or discriminatory tendencies".

PLAN. The PM announced that, for the upcoming period of time, a Museum of the Holocaust is to be initiated in Romania. Together with that, there will also be a media campaign to inform the public and, for the long term, there will be measures like taking the young journalists into a research visit to the Yad Vashem Memorial. "Unfortunately, there is a dark page in the people’s history book that regards the tragic fate of the Romanian-born Jews, who, during the WW II, lost their lives or the ones they loved in Basarabia, Bucovina, Transnistria, Bucharest, Iasi, Dorohoi and Focsani. This terrifying chapter of our recent history cannot be forgotten or avoided. The destiny of the Jews that were killed or deported, forced to leave their country or dispossessed of their freedom, rights and possessions is a moral lesson that every one of us should learn during this entire process of responsibility assumption and remembering", Tariceanu said. He also talked about the initiation of the school-study of the Holocaust, which he believes it has already caused a change in the perception of the people. "Recovering the truth regarding the fate of a great community of some fellow citizens is very important for a country like Romania (…) We decided to build a strong partnership with the Israeli authorities in order to identify and restore the Jewish heritance in the global circuit of our cultural and historical values. The tolerance, the freedom and the respect for the human state are values we must develop in order to block the future generations from transforming themselves into perpetuators, victims or passive witnesses to genocide or to a tragedy similar to the Holocaust. Nowadays, when menacing voices of anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia are still heard in some place of the world, we are categorical: the anti-Semite behavior mustn’t be tolerated", Tariceanu concluded.

MEETINGS. After the conference, Prime-Minister Tariceanu took part in bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Belgium, France and Sweden. The latter ones reaffirmed their support for Romania’s adherence to the EU. In this context, the three dignitaries gave positive answers to the Prime-Minister’s request asking the members of the Euro-Parliament to support Romania in the attempt to obtain a favorable majority for the approval of the treaty of adherence to the EU. The voting is scheduled for the 13th of April.

A "more substantial" meeting was the one between Prime-Minister Tariceanu and Jean Pierre Raffarin. The two officials discussed about the situation created by the sayings of Marcus Feber regarding the generalized corruption in Romania, but also about the economical relationships between the two countries. "I was glad to see that France sees Romania ready for the European integration", Tariceanu said. The two officials also discussed about the EADS and Vinci contracts. The Romanian Prime-Minister told Raffarin that the running of these contracts could be decided only after the appearance of a financial audit to show if they respect the Romanian legislation or not.

Israel - Romanian, Building Site Chief at the Museum of the Holocaust

The building site chief from Yad Vashem, the famous Museum of the Holocaust in Israel, is Romanian, according to Rompres.

I.A. is in Israel since 1993, where he worked on different building sites, and, in time, he made it to managing the building site at the Museum in Yad Vashem. He is not Jewish, but knows a lot of things about the history of Israel and about the Museum. Remaining anonymous, the Romanian says he lives in a barrack inside the museum, which even though modest, it is his home. His job brought him near many famous people, and he is the most proud about his picture with the governor of California, the former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last year, he put the foundation stone of another museum that was built in Jerusalem. (By Ana Ilie)