Public Memory and detected signals of justice. Outline for a theory of public space in transition

Abstract

In 1953, Radu Dinulescu, former chief of the 2nd Section within the General Staff of the Romanian Army, was convicted to 15 years of forced labor and 10 years of civic degradation. He was found guilty of several counts among which the involvement in the organization of the Iași Pogrom and the deportation of Jews. After several developments of the legal situation under the incidence of the political, the Supreme Court of Justice acquited him of war crimes in 1998.

Keywords

• Holocaust
• Jews
• Romania
• war crimes
• trial
• public memory