Dragos Hotea
Head of the Romanian Delegation to the IHRA
Member country since: 2004
Remembrance Days: 27 January (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) 9 October (National Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Dragos Hotea (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Head of Delegation
Felicia Waldman (Goldstein Goren Center for Hebrew Studies, University of Bucharest) – Deputy Head of Delegation and Education Working Group
Irina Cajal Marin (Ministry of Culture) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Adrian Cioflanca (Board of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Centre for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews – „Wilhelm Filderman”) – Academic Working Group
Ioana Dumitriu (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Alexandru Florian (Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania) – Academic Working Group
Petre Florin Manole (Roma Education Fund Romania) – Education Working Group
Elisabeth Ungureanu (Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Zoltán Tibori Szabó (Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca) – Academic Working Group
Alina Bricman (European Affairs at B'nai B'rith International) – Education Working Group
Nicolae Dragusin (Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania) – Museums and Memorials
Alexandru Muraru (Romanian Government) – Academic Working Group
Irina Dumitrita Solomon (Chancellery of the Romanian Prime Minister) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Several developments have taken place in Romania since joining the IHRA, including the inauguration of the ‘Romanian National Holocaust Memorial’ in 2009, the updating of primary and secondary school curricula, the publication of new academic and non-academic works on the Holocaust and the development of a national program for teachers, magistrates, police officers and public servants training in Holocaust education and combating antisemitism. In all these efforts we benefited from the expertise of the National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania - "Elie Wiesel" and more than 20 other academic and civic organizations in the country.
In 2010, the discovery of a mass grave in Popricani (Iasi), followed by a verdict that established the responsibility of the Romanian Army for the genocide committed in 1941, placed Romania among countries committed to the preservation of historic killing sites. Building on remembrance efforts, Romania held the IHRA Chairmanship in 2016-2017. An important achievement was the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism in May 2016, followed by Romania's national adoption of the working definition on 25 May 2017.