We mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on January 27, with a film and conversation covering aspects of the Holocaust in Romania and the Romanian Controlled Territories. "Memories from the Eastern Front", a short archive film by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă presents powerful images during WWII. The film will be followed by a conversation with Professor Dan Stone, Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London and Adrian Cioflâncă, Director of the "Wilhelm Filderman" Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania. The conversation will be moderated by Dorian Galbinksi veteran BBC journalist and author.
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust, genocide studies, history of anthropology, history of fascism, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. He is the author or editor of twenty books and some 100 scholarly articles. His book "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" has just been published in paperback at Pelican Books. He is currently writing a book on the Holocaust in Romania.
Adrian Cioflâncă is the director of the "Wilhelm Filderman" Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and a member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. He was a member of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (2003-2004) and expert in The Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (2006), co-author of the Final Reports of the two commissions. Adrian Cioflâncă co-edited eight collective volumes, among which the most recent "Discourse and Antisemitic Violence in Modern Romania", Hasefer, Bucharest, 2020.
20 years old Dorian Galbinski left his native Constanța, in Communist Romania, in 1965. He emigrated with his family to Israel, where he lived for almost six years. In 1970, he was offered employment at the BBC World Service, Romanian Section, where he worked for 38 years, becoming the longest-serving member of the Romanian editorial staff. Dorian was, throughout his journalistic career, a reliable witness to some momentous political events such as the 1973 Israeli-Arab war, the invasion of Northern Cyprus by Turkey in 1974 and the fall of Communism in Europe. In 2021 his autobiography, Life Flies by a Bullet – Memoirs of a BBC Reporter was published in Bucharest.
When: 25 January 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH, UK
