Ion antonescu biography template
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Early life and career
Born in the town of Pitești, north-west of the capital Bucharest, Antonescu was the scion of an upper-middle classRomanian Orthodox family with some military tradition.[2] He was especially close to his mother, Lița Baranga, who survived his death.[3] His father, an army officer, wanted Ion to follow in his footsteps and thus sent him to attend the Infantry and Cavalry School in Craiova.[1] During his childhood, his father divorced his mother to marry a woman who was a Jewish omvandla to Orthodoxy.[4] The breakup of his parents' marriage was a traumatic event for the young Antonescu, and he made no secret of his dislike of his stepmother, whom he always depicted as a femme fatale who destroyed what he saw as his parents' happy marriage.[4]
According to one konto, Ion Antonescu was briefly a classmate of Wilhelm Filderman, the future Romanian Jewish community activist whose interventions with Conducător Antonescu helped spara a number of his core
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| Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu | |
|---|---|
| Conducător of Romania | |
In office September 6, 1940 – August 23, 1944 | |
| Preceded by | Carol II (as King of Romania) |
| Succeeded by | none |
| Prime Minister of Romania | |
In office September 5, 1940 – August 23, 1944 | |
| Monarch | Carol II Michael |
| Preceded by | Ion Gigurtu |
| Succeeded by | Constantin Sănătescu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 15, 1882 Piteşti, Argeș County, Romania |
| Died | June 1, 1946(1946-06-01) (aged 63) Jilava, Ilfov County, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | none* |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Antonescu |
| Profession | soldier |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
| Military service | |
| Nickname(s) | Câinele Roşu ("Red Dog") |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Romania |
| Service/branch | Romanian Land Forces |
| Years of service | 1904–1944 |
| Rank | Marshal of Romania |
| Commands | Commander-in-Chief, Romanian Armed Forces |
| Battles/wars | Second Balkan War World War I Wor • In Romania, Students See Parallels Between Today and the Pre-Holocaust EraEvery Thursday morning students at Iasi National College in northeastern Romania sit down to make history. Supervised by their teacher, Adriana Radu, a tall, prim woman with dark plum hair, the class is one of the first to take Romania’s new mandatory high school course on the Holocaust and Romanian Jewish history. Meeting in the school’s elegant library that boasts vaulted ceilings and towering bookshelves, the 24 young scholars have been on an eye-opening, and at times emotional, journey since the course was rolled out in September 2023. Most of the students knew nothing of their country’s role in the mass murder and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews during World War II or the dehumanizing rhetoric that foreshadowed the atrocities. Romania joined the Axis powers in November 1940 and helped to invade the Soviet Union the following summer. “I was shocked about Romania’s role in the Holocaust,” |