SPECIAL - January 19th 2004 People talked about it around the corners during Ceausescu s Golden Era, but, like many of the legends that used to be heard at that time, the Jew sale by the Romanian state wasn t an official fact either. This continued until the Revolution in December 1989. We are referring to a part of the Romanian history that has been mentioned in the top secret files only.

By MARINA CONSTANTINOIU

LAW. The Judaic codex says that, for the salvation of the Jews, no effort must be done. The dream of creating a country of their own and of being free had been paid with cash by many of the Jews in Romania. Neither in Bucharest, nor in Tel-Aviv, the men sale, which happened in Romania in the 20th century, has been taken out of the cover of the state s top-secret files. However, the beginning of the 90 s meant the first steps taken towards the opening of the archives and finding the truth. A document book, which is to be released in the first days of February, talks for the first time about these facts. The daily newspaper Jurnalul National acquired the manuscript and talked to its author.

INCITING. Radu Ioanid, Doctor of History, division director at the Memorial Museum of the Holocaust in Washington DC, is the author of an inciting book. The Ransom of the Jews The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel is printed at the Polirom publishing house. Because it has been written in English (the book is being released in the USA these days), Ciprian Dumea and Mirela Mircea, two candidates for a doctor s degree from the Faculty of Letters of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, have translated it into Romanian.

The literary work, whose manuscript has been kindly awarded to us by the author himself, is as important as an official report regarding an event in the country s history. This is bec