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The article explores how Romanian Jews in exile remember and represent their identities through personal narratives of the Holocaust.

June 14, 2026

The Holocaust and Jewish Romanian Identity in Exile

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The article explores how Romanian Jews in exile remember and represent their identities through personal narratives of the Holocaust.
Analysis of recorded oral and written testimonies of Romanian Jewish survivors
Examination of narratives from Sorana Ursu, Rosa Meir, and artists including Hedda Sterne and Marcel Iancu
Focus on concepts of narrative identity and active forgetting
Testimonies reveal that identity is actively created through the recounting of trauma and personal history
Exile experiences significantly shape socio-political perspectives among the witnesses
Narratives demonstrate a complex interplay of memory and forgetting in shaping identity

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Abstract This article focuses on ways in which Romanian Jews remembered and represented their past while in exile. The recorded oral and written testimonies of Sorana Ursu, Rosa Meir, and artists Hedda Sterne, Marcel Iancu, and Daniel Spoerri reveal how through the act of testifying, identity and life-story are not only recalled but also created. All these witnesses survived the trauma of the Holocaust, and this historical moment shaped their socio-political and life perspective. Their narratives of trauma and reconstruction of the self are presented and analyzed through the prism of the exile experience and the concepts of active forgetting and narrative identity.

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