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Romania's Hidden Past: Post-Communism LOTS of Abandoned Prisons, Barracks, and State Buildings Became the Ideal Setting for CIA Black-Ops Detention Sites in the Early 2000s and NOW bedroom structures built from old buildings to house children?

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Historical Context

Late 19th–Early 20th Century

Romania's Jewish community was among the largest in Europe (over 700,000 people by 1930).
Most Jews lived in cities (Iași, Bucharest, Cluj, Czernowitz/Cernăuți) and worked in commerce, crafts, medicine, and culture.
The country was still largely rural and agrarian.

World War II and the Holocaust

During the war, under the Antonescu regime, hundreds of thousands of Jews and Roma were deported or killed (especially in areas such as Transnistria).
Survivors often found their homes and businesses destroyed or confiscated.

Post-war Emigration to Israel

After WWII and especially after Israel's founding in 1948, several hundred thousand Romanian Jews emigrated to Israel (many in the 1950s–1970s under state-negotiated exit agreements).
They left behind synagogues, schools, homes, businesses, and cultural institutions.
In many towns the Jewish population shrank to a tiny fraction of what it had been, and buildings were abandoned or repurposed.

Communist Era (1947–1989)