Jean Ancel

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Jean Ancel ( Hebrew ז'אן אנצ'ל; born 1940 in Iași , Romania ; died April 30, 2008 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was a Romanian-Israeli historian . His specialty was the history of the Jews in Romania and the Holocaust there .

Life

Jean Ancel was born in Iași in 1940. During the Iasi pogrom , he was one year old and was hidden in a cellar. 27 members of his family were killed in this pogrom. His father was put on a death train but survived.

Ancel studied history at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University , but was before graduating in 1959 relegated because he an emigration to Israel had requested. In 1963 he was able to continue his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he obtained a first degree in history and Romance languages in 1967 . Further degrees were completed in 1970 in Jewish history and archiving . In 1977 he was awarded the doctoral degree in Jewish history of the modern age for the dissertation "The Jews of Romania between August 23, 1944 and December 30, 1947".

Ancel worked extensively with archival materials from Israel, Romania, Moldova , Russia, the USA and Germany. He had a research position at Yad Vashem and wrote several history books, some of which were translated into Romanian . He published twelve volumes of original documents, mainly about the Holocaust in Romania. He was a member of the 29-member Wiesel Commission named after the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel . It is thanks to his historical work that the reception of Romania's role in the Holocaust has changed significantly. According to his research, which he carried out in Romanian state archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union , it could be proven that Romania was not a “straggler” of Nazi Germany, but rather initiated anti-Jewish measures itself in some cases before the German National Socialists.

In addition to his work as a historian, he was also a newscaster for the Israeli radio station Kol Israel . He died in Jerusalem in 2008.

Publications (selection)

  • The History of the Holocaust in Romania. (The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust) University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2011.
  • Jean Ancel (Ed.): Documents concerning the fate of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust. New York, NY 1986 (Beate Klarsfeld Foundation), Volume 5: Bessarabia , Bukovina , Transnistria
  • with Theodore Lavi (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2 (Edineţ, Moldova). Jerusalem 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ↑ Day of the abdication of King Michael

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personal data
SURNAME Ancel, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ז'אן אנצ'ל (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Iași , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2008
Place of death Jerusalem