Elie Wiesel

The victims of the Holocaust were honored today in Bucharest in a commemorative ceremony attended by Israeli ambassador David Saranga, deputy and president of the Federation of the Romanian Jewish Communities (FCER) Silviu Vexler, and general director of the "Elie Wiesel" Institute, Alexandru Florian.

No one can guarantee that anti-Semitism won't become manifest again in Romania, director of the "Elie Wiesel" Institute, Alexandru Florian, said at an event organised on Tuesday in remembrance of the January 21 - 23, 1941 pogrom in Bucharest.

The buildings are crumbling, some have turned into small businesses - there is a car mechanic shop, a bodega, a storage facility of some kind, an abandoned, overgrown and depressing-looking children's playground, and an office of the ruling political party. The shiny new Usce shopping centre glitters through the treetops.

Police in Sighetu Marmatiei in northern Romania on Monday were investigating who was responsible for anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel's childhood home at the weekend.

Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) expresses its regret and strongly condemns and anti-Semitic gestures, with respect to the foul play committed on the 'Elie Wiesel' Memorial House in Sighetu Marmatiei of the Peace Nobel Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

A Romania rap and hip-hop band has come under intense criticism on social media and from human rights activists and politicians for a video shot two years ago in the Holocaust Memorial in central Bucharest.

On the National Holocaust Remembrance Day, Romania pays homage to the memory of the innocent lives taken during that dark period, Prime Minister Victor Ponta wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.