Romania

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/22/2020
  

  30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

  Here’s what’s become of them.

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• 9/15/19
  

  Eastern European Historian Emanuela Grama on Romania’s Heritage

  by Erik Moshe

  “The best historian is a kind of magician; one that can transform a puzzle of disparate dusty documents into a persuasive analysis and an electric narrative.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-5-18
  

  Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled on Childhood Home of Elie Wiesel in Romania

  The act of vandalism occurred months after Romania’s Parliament passed a law in June to prevent and combat episodes of anti-Semitism.

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-14-13
  

  Lawyers hint at possible recovery of stolen Dutch art

  BRUSSELS — Paintings worth tens of millions of dollars that were stolen last October from an art museum in the Netherlands have not been burned, and a Romanian gang behind the theft wants to cut an unspecified deal with the authorities so the artwork can be returned, lawyers for the defendants said on Tuesday as they went on trial in Romania.“Our clients want to tell where the paintings are, but they want to make a deal,” one of the lawyers, Radu Catalin Dancu, told reporters in Bucharest after a judge ordered the trial adjourned until next month. “We cannot say anything more than that.”

• SOURCE: WaPo
  8-8-13
  

  In search for stolen art, Romania finds traces of 19th-, 20th-century paint in ash from oven

  BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian museum official says some of the paint pigments recovered from an oven of a woman whose son is charged with stealing seven multimillion-dollar paintings in the Netherlands contain chemicals from colors used in the 19th and 20th century, but aren’t commonly used anymore.Forensic scientists at Romania’s National History Museum examined ash from the stove of Olga Dogaru, whose son is the chief suspect in last year’s theft of paintings, which include a Matisse, a Picasso and a Monet.Authorities said Dogaru initially admitted burning the paintings to protect her son, but later denied it....

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  7-17-13
  

  Stolen Picasso 'burned in stove' in Romania

  A Romanian museum is analysing ashes found in a stove to see if they are the remains of seven paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others that were stolen last year from the Netherlands, an official has said.The prosecutor's spokeswoman, Gabriela Chiru, told Associated Press that Romania's National History Museum was examining the ashes found in the stove of Olga Dogaru. She is the mother of Radu Dogaru, one of three Romanian suspects charged with stealing the paintings from Rotterdam's Kunsthal gallery in a daytime heist.It was the biggest art theft in more than a decade in the Netherlands. The stolen works have an estimated value of tens of millions of dollars if they were sold at auction....