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The element of novelty brought by this paper is to valorify a number of 8 questionnaires with Jews that either were deported or their family members were deported, from Oradea. Together with an introduction in the topic of the history of Jews from Romania and Hungary from the years 1945-1953 and an analysis of the existent bibliography in this field of research, these are the contributions brought by this paper. The questionnaires, the original part of this paper, reveal the uncertainty, scarcity of material resources, the illnesses and the political pressure that the Jewish community from Oradea had to bear after their return from Holocaust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some authors understand paradiplomacy, classified by Kuznetsov (2015) into eleven major domains, as the participation of non-central governments in International Relations through networking (permanent, or ad-hoc) with public or private entities to promote socioeconomic or cultural development (Cornago Prieto, 2000). Cultural diplomacy has been, and still is, an essential tool not only in its international dimension, but also as a decisive device in domestic projection (labelled by some scholars "intermestic affairs"). In this paper I will bring into discussion a cultural product based entirely on translations and intended as a propaganda tool during the communist era in twentieth century Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper brings new information about the situation of Jews of Romania in the time of Holocaust and its aftermath (the years of transition to communism and the first years after the setting of communism). It appears that the Jews from Transnistria were deprived by their fundamental rights under the leadership of Ion Antonescu and many of them were killed in their interraction with Romanian military forces. After the war, the surviving Jews have the right to adjust to the communist regime, and to integrate in the communist state, but they have to close their organizations and the ties with Israel were considered as dangerous, although they continued to dream and search ways for emigration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an analysis of two totalitarian regimes, Romanian and Russian, from the perspective of those who were imprisoned due to their convictions against the communist system. We tried to identify and understand the similarities and the differences between these two regimes, taking into account some patterns (reasons for confessing, arrests, food, physical and psychological pressures, or relationships with guards) that in our opinion offered the image of the real life in Romanian and Russian prisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the problem of Romanian Jews' emigration in Israel as revealed by a few historical writings and in published documents. The Romanian Jews' emigration in Israel was a continuous process in spite of the communist regime established in Romania after the war and it was one of the main priorities of Romanian - Israeli diplomatic relations. The research focused on the years 1945 - 1953. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]