Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Romania is erected 2009 at
Anghel Saligny in Bucharest.
The memorial site is a 3000 square meter area where several symbols are located.:
-A half-decent building must symbolize gas chambers. Around the room is an iron band with the names of Jews who were killed during the Holocaust.
-A 17 meter high iron column with single letters forming the word "Zachor" - "Remember."
-Via Dolorosa are railway tracks, these symbolize the death trains to, among other things, Auschwitz.
-The Wheel of the Roma tells that the Roma were also exterminated
-The Epitaph is an iron container with cut stones that symbolize how bulldozers push the bodies into mass graves.
-Star of David symbol of the Jewish people. The Nazis required Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing
Text on the description:
"The Holocaust in Romania. 1940-1944
As the Nazis and their allies and collaborators implemented plans to destroy the Jews of Europe (which would come to be known as the Holocaust or Shoah), the Romanian state unleashed its own systematic persecution of the Jews, which was heralded by the antisemitic legislation of 1940. The pogroms in Dorohoi and Galati, in June 1940, as well as those in Bucharest, in January 1941, and in Iasi, in June 1941, left thousands dead and marked the beginning of the organized of Romanian Jewry. In October 1941, the regime of Ion Antonescu began deporting the Jews of Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria, launching a genocidal campaign to eliminate de country’s Jewish population between 1940 and 1944. The Romanian state was responsible for the deaths of at least 280,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews. Twenty-five thousand Roma were also deported to Transnistria, where 11,000 died. In the spring of 1944, the occupying Hungarian authorities in the north-western regions of Romania deported 135,000 Transylvanian Jews who were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazi Germany.
The Romanian nation and their government erected this memorial as a permanent place of remembrance and as a warning addressed to future generations."
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