Bucharest, Jan 27 /Agerpres/ - Israel Tanner, president of the Association of the Romanian Jews - Victims of the Holocaust, has warned that many Europeans surveyed by the Claims Conference, as well as 44% of Romanians, believe that a Holocaust-type phenomenon could occur again.

'I was so small, two years old, when I was deported to Transnistria, where I immediately lost my father, taken to forced labor and eliminated', recalled Israel Tanner, at the ceremony dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, organized at the Bucharest Coral Temple.

He added that he translated the sociological research of the Claims Conference organization.

'Claims Conference is an organization that, in a phrase, deals with reparations from former Nazi Germany, Democratic Germany, to Jewish victims. They had the idea to deal a little bit with this question of terminology - what is the Holocaust, can it ever occur. I translated a phrase from what the Claims Conference could do. The majority of adults in all the countries where they've conducted interviews believe that the Holocaust or something like the Holocaust could certainly happen again today. In the United States, more than three-quarters of adults interviewed believe this. But what about in Europe? In the UK, 69% believe the Holocaust could happen again, in France 63% and so on. In Romania, 44% of adults surveyed believe that something like the Holocaust could happen again today. And we, older people, we use the internet and we find out whatnotot. (...) We look at what's going on around us and say, 'Here we go again'. And it ends again with what was before,' conveyed Israel Tanner. AGERPRES (RO - author: Catalina Matei, editor: Mihai Simionescu; EN - editor: Simona Iacob)