Radu IoanidRadu Ioanid is the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division and the author of several books on Romanian history and the Holocaust, including The Holocaust in Romania and The Ransom of the Jews: The Stry of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel. He earned his first doctorate at the University of Cluj, Romania, and his second at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. From 2018 onwards he is an Associate Professor at Political Science Department, University of Cluj. From 2003-4 he served as the Vice-President for the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, chaired by Elie Wiesel. In 2006 Ioanid received the distinguished rank of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, conferred by the French Minister of Culture; promoted in 2014 Officier des Arts et des Lettres. He received the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award, Europe-Best Regional Non-Fiction, GOLD (tie) for his book The Iași Pogrom, June-July 1941, A Photo Documentary from the Holocaust in Romania , (Indiana University Press, 2017). Read More Read Less