Radu Ioanids account of the destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the regime of Ion Antonescu based upon privileged access to secret East European government archives is an unprecedented analysis of heretofore purposely hidden materials. He builds an accurate perspective on Romanian policies of racism antiSemitism and Jewish extermination during this extraordinary period in world history. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With a Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Invaluable...monumental...no comparable work in any language has documented this important history with the thoroughness skill and analytical sophistication this book demonstrates.Leo Spitzer Dartmouth College.