Adrian Cioflâncă (Romania)

Adrian Cioflâncă is a historian. He is director of the Wilhelm Filderman Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and a member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. He was a member of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (2003-2004) and expert in The Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (2006), co-author of the Final Reports of the two commissions. Since 2005, he is a member of the Romanian Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Tziporah Wiesel Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (2009). He edited, in collaboration, eight volumes; the last one: Discourse and Antisemitic Violence in Modern Romania, Hasefer, București, 2020. He authored studies in fields like the history of the Holocaust, history of communism, political violence, cultural history, the theory of history. Consultant for several movies and theatrical plays.

After being a consultant on Radu Jude’s The Dead Nation and I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, he teamed up with Jude to co-direct the documentary essay The Exit of the Trains, about the victims of the Iaşi pogrom, where thousands of Romanian Jews were executed on 29 June 1941 and the days that followed.