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Index Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. Abdulachim, Kiazim, 61 Adamclisi, 127 , 128 Aderca, Felix, 94–95 Adevărul (leftist newspaper), 77 Aiud political prison, 204, 205 Albania/Albanians, 5, 1 5, 46, 1 55 Alecsandri, Vasile, 40 Alexander III, Tsar, 36 Alexandra, Tsarina, 36 almsgiving, 19, 43. See also parastas ritual ancestors: ancestor worship as norm, 250; cult of the dead and, 229; Jewish religious holidays and, 23; testimonial voice of, 180; war memorials and, 62, 64, 101; women’s role in remembrance of, 44–45 anthropology, 38 anti-fascism, 164, 166, 1 70, 171, 1 91, 25 1 anti-Semitism, 8, 173, 1 94, 246, 294n16; under Antonescu regime, 149, 157, 191; Catholic, 33; Ceauşescu regime and, 221; of Codreanu’s legionaries, 148; Jews blamed for Communism, 220; legislation , 196; literary treatment of, 175; in memoir literature, 8, 80–81; as official public policy, 219; post-Communist memoirs and debate about, 226, 238; prevalence in modern Romanian politics , 189; before World War I, 25–26.See also Holocaust; Iaşi pogrom Antonescu, Ion, and regime of, 5, 1 45, 1 51, 171, 3 02n33; anti-Semitism of, 157, 189, 191; bust in National Military Museum, 236, 237;celebrated by Romanian army, 164; “crusade against Bolshevism” and, 8; fascist regime of, 147, 148; Iron Guard and, 213–1 4; in literary fiction and film, 191, 23 2–33; local commemorations and, 154; overthrow of, 149, 166, 169–7 0; racist ideology and, 197; rehabilitation of Antonescu, 192, 221, 23 5–37 , 237;Romanian army under, 146; streets named after, 243 Antonescu, Mihai, 213 Apa, village of, 208 Arad, city of, 137 , 138 architecture, 28, 264n57 aristocracy, 84, 169 Armed Forces Day, 166–67 army, Habsburg, 33–3 4, 55, 64, 83, 181, 277n34 army, Romanian, 7, 15; Antonescu regime and, 149, 164; Armed Forces Day and, 166–67; in Balkan Wars, 25; burial of dead in World War I, 56, 57; Commission for Public Monuments and, 132; Holocaust and, 169, 189; I ron Guard in civil war with, 197; Jews in, 62; Kun regime in Hungary defeated by, 67, 111–12; in memoir literature, 77–79,78; as part of NATO, 236; in post-Communist period, 228; role in commemorations under 338 Index Communism, 160, 16 2–65, 163;soldiers’ memoirs of World War II, 201–205; soldiers taken prisoner by Soviets, 205–11, 297n53; Soviet military cemeteries and, 159–60, 165; women in, 86, 129–30; in World War I, 55; in W orld War II, 8, 146, 149, 152, 171, 1 73–76, 187 . See also veterans Árpád (Magyar tribal leader), 138, 154 Ascension holiday, 60, 61, 62, 104, 107, 158; parastas ritual, 105; post-Communism and, 228; women’s roles in, 100, 105,231. See also Heroes Day Astra organization, 11 4 atheism, 162, 180, 203, 232, 281n18 Augustine, St., 75 Auschwitz death camp, 186, 205 Austria, post-Habsburg, 138, 155 Austria-Hungary (Habsburg empire), 4, 6, 20, 227, 265n71; fall of, 38; imperial commemoration in, 31–3 5; Jews in, 22, 220; monument building in, 27; Orthodox Christians in, 21; territories controlled by, 23; in W orld War I, 51 autobiographies, 2, 73–74; canon of memoirs , 67–82, 78; memoir literature, 74–76; novels as, 173–74; in post-Communist period, 224. See also memoirs Averescu, Marshal Alexandru, 77–78, 83, 85, 233, 23 4, 276n10 Axis powers, 7, 8, 173, 1 96 Bacalbaşa, Constantin, 80, 81, 83, 85, 87 Bălaj, Mihai, 202–203, 204, 206 Balkan Wars, 7, 25, 30–31, 48, 54 Baltic countries, 201, 215, 217 Banat region, 7, 23, 31, 3 4, 108, 111 Bărăgan region, deportations to, 214, 218, 289n39 Barbusse, Henri, 91 Băsescu, Traian, 246 Beck, Rabbi, 104 The Beginning of the Truth—the Mirror (film), 232–33 Belgium, 52, 11 9 Beller, Steven, 38 Bellu military cemetery, 153 Berlin, Congress of, 6, 24, 26, 80 Bessarabia, 7, 9, 38, 197; Heroes Day in, 108; Holocaust in, 185, 206–207; Jewish ghettos in, 198; Jews rounded up in, 151; monuments in, 142; Romanian monarchy viewed in, 111; R omanian rule in interwar period, 35; Romanians in, 40; Russian and Soviet rule over, 23, 205, 214 Bilete de papagal (journal), 173 Bismarck, Otto von, 35 Black Coats, 199, 292n73 Black Monastery (Kuncz), 95 Blanton, Thomas, 241 Bohemia, 20, 22, 32, 35 Bolshevism, 7, 8, 199, 205. See also Soviet Union/Soviet Russians Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bosnians, 15,33,35 Brăncoveanu, Constantin, 28...

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