United States Museum Slams Romania for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Coin

BUCHAREST (AP).- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says the refusal of Romania’s central bank to withdraw a coin with an image of a prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II is “insensitive” to the memory of Holocaust victims. The Anti-Defamation League also condemned the decision and urged President Traian Basescu Friday to ensure that information about the anti-Semitic actions of Miron Cristea is included with each coin. The museum in Washington, D.C., said Cristea’s tenure as Romania’s premier from 1938 to 1939 “marked the opening of a systematic campaign of anti-Semitic persecution by successive Romania governments that resulted in the devastation of

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