Jewish officials are denouncing Romania’s recent declaration that no mass murder of Jews took place on Romanian soil in World War II. The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel director, Efraim Zuroff, demanded that Romania’s Information Ministry retract its statement last Friday, when it claimed that “within the borders of Romania between 1940 and 1945 there was no Holocaust.”
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