A book by Romanian “historian” Paul Goma that alternatively blames Jews for the Holocaust and then raises doubts as to whether the Holocaust even took place in Romania is circulating in Moldova, according to an August 14, 2003 report by the RUJEN news agency. The Moldovan weekly periodical Timpul published parts of the book in serialization, but after several complaints ceased to do so. Pyotr Shornikov, a Moldovan official charged with monitoring inter-ethnic relations, told RUJEN:

“Goma argues that Jews themselves are guilty of the fact that in the Romanian kingdom, around 200,000 Jews were killed and that another 700,000 were killed on the territories annexed by Romania—Bessarabia, Bukovina, Pridniester and southern Ukraine—because the Jews behaved too aggressively and were justly punished for this. Goma also thinks that the numbers of the dead are too high. He even goes to the point of doubting whether there was a Holocaust at all.”

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