The daily life of the Jews during the Ion Antonescu regime

An important aspect of historical ressearch is the analysis of the microsocial history, of life conditions that individuals, small and large groups of human beings had in certain historical contexts. A fascinating topic that allows the reconstruction of a real, concrete history is the ability to see how the daily life of some people or collectivities changed under the impact of some political, administrative or economic, central or local decisions. During Antonescu’s regime, central and local decisions were made, with a restrictive /coercive character, against the Jewish population, and this meant also as many occasions for privations in their lives: impoverishment by dispossession or expulsion to the margins of the society, accumulation of risks threatening the life security, stigmatization of Jews as number one public enemy, etc. We will introduce some documents that show local and/or conjectural reactions with a clear anti-Semitic character.