Despre radu ioanid biography
Doctor of History, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Radu Ioanid was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania.!
How a Romanian Holocaust historian became a diplomat to Israel
When Romanian President Klaus Iohannis offered historian Radu Ioanid an ambassadorship, Ioanid said there was only one country in the world where he would want to serve: Israel.
Born in Bucharest to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Ioanid’s connection to Israel goes beyond his ancestry.
His research into Romania’s role in the Holocaust made him an enemy of Romania’s communist regime, which he escaped.
In the subsequent decades, as the premier historian of the Holocaust in Romania and the director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archival Programs Division, he has clocked many hours in Yad Vashem and other archives throughout the country over decades of research.
One of Ioanid’s books, The Ransom of the Jews: The story of the extraordinary secret bargain between Romania and Israel, which came out in a new edition this year, revealed that Israel paid Ceausescu&r