Responsibility for the Holocaust

The government pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust against the Roma through several actions organised Friday to Sunday, a release from the Romanian gov't reads.

Director of the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (INSHR) Alexandru Florian on Friday voiced confidence that the Museum of the History of the Jews and the Holocaust in Romania will be built in the space under the administration of the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest.

The Romanian military prosecution office has opened a criminal case after more human remains were discovered near a mass grave found in 2010 close to the city of Iasi.

The remains were found on June 29 by experts working for Romania's Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust near Popricani, a small municipality close to Iasi.

The risk of hatred, anti-Semitism, racism, nationalism and extremism manifestations must not be ignore, on Sunday says president Klaus Iohannis in a message on the 78th commemoration of the Pogrom in Iasi, adding that the actions of destroying some Jewish cemeteries verifies this peril exists.

Zagreb City Assembly voted on Tuesday to build a monument honouring the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust in World War II - but the proposal has been questioned by Croatian Jewish community representatives and left-wingers.

One of Romania's priorities during the presidency of the Council of the EU is to intensify European joint efforts to combat anti-Semitism, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Thursday, during a meeting she had, in Brussels, with the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, informs a press release issued by the Government.

Combating terrorism is one of the priorities of the agenda of the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Wednesday at the official ceremony dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day organized by the European Jewish Congress, under the patronage of the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani.

A memorial dedicated to the Greek Jews of the town of Kastoria, in the northern region of West Macedonia, who perished in the Holocaust was vandalized on Christmas day, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported on Wednesday.

According to the news agency, unknown perpetrators sprayed both sides of the marble slab commemorating the event with black paint.

Greece and Israel on Wednesday initiated the first bilateral dialog on fighting anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism, amid a spate of vandalisms against Holocaust monuments and Jewish cemeteries across Greece.

Police in Sighetu Marmatiei in northern Romania on Monday were investigating who was responsible for anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel's childhood home at the weekend.