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I enjoyed reading and reviewing a recent book:"The Trial of a Nazi Doctor: Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver" by Andrew Wisely. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2024.
You can read it here:
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Kaale Belongings and Evangelical Becomings "Kaale Belongings and Evangelical Becomings" published on 11 Jul 2025 by Brill | Schöningh.

Con gratulations to Raluca Bianca Roman for her book! I am looking forward to reading it!
"Kaale Belongings and Evangelical Becomings: An Ethnography of Finnish Roma"
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Maine voi prezenta la Institutul Elie Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania Elie Wiesel cartea mea apărută la începutul anului!

ChapmanU Professor Stefan Ionescu @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social (History) published his second book Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania, 1944-1950: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities with Cambridge University Press.

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The Rise and Fall of an Aryanization Bank | 3 | The Romanian Credit In Probably the most important domestic project of the pro-Nazi Antonescu regime, the policy of Romanianization of the economy had ambitious goals. It aimed to

ChapmanU History Prof. Stefan Ionescu @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social published The Rise and Fall of an Aryanization Bank: The Romanian Credit Institute, 1941-1951, a chapter in A Marketplace Without Jews: Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe.

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Restitution of Jewish Property in Northern Transylvania During the Early Postwar Years The restitution of Jewish property in the multiethnic region of Northern Transylvania faced numerous challenges during the first post-Holocaust years as a result of the complicated wartime history, postwar demographics, legal status, interethnic dynamics, and occasional violence. Having the lowest rate of survival among all Jewish communities in Romania, most of the region’s Jews died during the deportation and did not return to their native places to claim their properties. This impacted the extent of restitution of individual private property. Some of the Aryanized property was restituted to the Jewish survivors or their heirs because the wartime beneficiaries fled the country or renounced posession since they were afraid of potential negative consequences. Part of the restitution took place through court litigation and this gives researchers a chance to assess the extent of Jewish success in obtaining restitution. The Supreme Court decisions in restitution cases show that the Jewish plaintiffs were completely successful in their litigation based on law 645/1945 that cancelled the transactions with property Aryanized during the Hungarian rule of Northern Transylvania. This was a much higher success rate, compared to the general share of success for Jewish litigation at the entire country level – around 66 %.

ChapmanU Professor Stefan Ionescu @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social (History) published the article "Restitution of Jewish Property in Northern Transylvania During the Early Postwar Years" in the Eastern European Holocaust Studies journal.

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Themed Issue: Restitution; Guest Editors: Borbála Klacsmann and Viktoriia Soloshenko Volume 3, issue 1 of the journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies was published in 2025.

Many thanks to Bori Klacsmann/Viktoriia Soloshenko, editors of a special issue (3-1, 2025/Holocaust restitution) of Eastern European Holocaust Studies. My contribution: "Restitution of Jewish Property in Northern Transylvania During the Early Postwar Years" www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

It was a great honor to present my book "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950." at the "Voices and Silences: 50 years of the SRS" conference! Many thanks to the organizers and co-panelists (V. Solonari, A. Filipovici, S. Suveica R Clark!

I'll be at Princeton University for a book talk with Professor Laura Leibman. Join us if you're around!

Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany The topic of Jewish resistance against the Nazis and their radical antisemitic policies has triggered numerous questions and debates since the 1940s. Many

I enjoyed reviewing Wolf Gruner's book "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany (Yale UP, 2023)" for German History. doi.org/10.1093/gerh...

ChapmanU Professor Stefan Ionescu @stefanc-ionescu.bsky.social (History) published his essay "'These Are not Ordinary Criminals!' The First War Crimes Trial at the People's Tribunal and Its Implications in Post-Holocaust Romania" in Central European History.

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For those interested in buying my recent book - "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania" - here is the discount flyer from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter The Holocaust has been addressed in US comics from the 1940s—when it was underway and not yet named or understood as a genocide but as a looming threat to

I am happy to share that my interview with Ari Richter on his fascinating graphic memoir Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz, is now availble on the MELUS website. It is forthcoming in the spring 2025 issue of MELUS. doi.org/10.1093/melu...

A very interesting talk about the fusgeyers emigrants from Romania around 1900. By Professor @dmihailes.bsky.social!

Are you a teacher covering the Holocaust or Nazi Germany in your #GCSE or #ALevel curriculum this year?

Our educational website #HolocaustExplained includes free downloadable resources drawing on unique materials from our archive buff.ly/whNzsAd

Indeed, this is a great resource (easily accessible and free of cost) for those interested in the history of the Holocaust and World War II!

Call for Entries: Claims Conference’s 2025 Emerging Filmmaker Contest Aiming to educate and spark powerful discussions, the worldwide competition focuses on short films about the Holocaust; the submission deadline is June 16.

Aiming to educate and spark powerful discussions, the Claims Conference's worldwide Emerging Filmmaker Contest focuses on short films about the Holocaust; the submission deadline is June 16. More information at film.claimscon.org
#FilmContest #HolocaustEducation

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The Macici Group - The First War Crime Trials of Holocaust Perpetrators in Romania YouTube video by WW2TV

In a week, Diana Dumitru, Stefan Ionescu, Emanuel Grec, & I, all members of the Society for Romanian Studies Holocaust & Second World War Working Group, will speak on WW2TV about the first war crimes trial in Romania for the 80th anniversary of the start of the proceedings against the Macici Group.

*They were next to us...* A new book with 12 stories about the Holocaust in Romania told in comic strip format.

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I enjoyed reviewing the book of Marius Turda "In Search of the Perfect Romanian" (Polirom, 2024) for the Journal of Romanian Studies Vol. 6, No 1 (April 2025)! I hope the English version of this outstanding book will be published soon!
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The Roma: A Traveling History by Madeline Potter English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have ...

So thrilled to see this starred reviews for ‘The Roma’ in Publishers Weekly 🙏

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My department is offering two fully-funded PhD positions in History for students from the UK.

One is earmarked for students of Black ethnicity and the other is on the History of Race, Health and Medicine.

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Assistant with a PhD (DM code: H019001) (m/f) to work in the Slovene history research program at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts (m/f) for a fixed period from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, f... General description: - scientific research and professional research; - professional collaboration with research clients;

My research program is looking for a postdoctoral fellow (12 months, full-time). While the call is a bureaucratic mess, we are looking for a historian of Central or SE Europe who will be able to focus on their research according to the research plan they have to submit with the application. 1/2

Call for Papers: ‘N. Steinhardt and His Times’, Special issue of the Journal of Romanian Studies.

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I was delighted to speak with Dr. Roland Clark about my new book "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950." I am grateful to Roland and the NEWBOOKSNETWORK for facilitating this conversation!
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Call for papers: FINAL WEEK FOR APPLICATIONS

Applications close 31 March 2025 for the 8th International ‘Beyond Camps and Forced Labour’ Conference (7–9 January 2026).

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If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign.
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Attn: Middle and high school teachers, librarians, etc: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education will take place June 23-25. It is free, virtual, and focuses on ELA and social studies. Please come! Register now: ushmm.org/2025BelferShare

Faculty Books - Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950 Dr. Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Associate Professor (History) and Associate Director of Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, is the author of Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding J...

I enjoyed talking to Emma Niro about my new book "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi RomaniaRebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950." Many thanks to Emma and The Voice of Wilkinson for facilitating this interview! blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/20...

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Congratulations! It is a great program! Wonderful professors and cool doctoral students. And Evanston has a very good quality of living.