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Bucharest, 1941. Social and cultural contrasts through the eyes and brush of Alexandru Poitevin-Scheletti. Romania's National Museum of Arts.

A tourist map of Bucharest from the 1980s. They sure don’t make graphics like this anymore!

This Torah scroll was used in the camps in Transnistria. The wooden rollers and mantle were made in the camps; when the survivors returned home, the Torah scroll was brought to the synagogue in Czernowitz.

Eugine Simon Karpe, American naval attaché to Bucharest, was retuning back with classified documents concerning spy networks in Eastern Europe when he was murdered and pushed off the Orient Express in 1950.

Canada Dry Ginger Ale rose to global fame thanks to Samuel Bronfman a Jewish immigrant from Bessarabia (Moldova). His family’s Seagram Company, acquired it in 1923, turning ginger ale from a niche soda into an international household classic.

Five drones exploded in Moldova this morning, damaging crops and private property, during Russia’s massive attacks of Odesa. Since 2022, around 85 drones crossed Moldovan airspace zdg.md/stiri/cinci-drone-au-…

Gastronomica Sighișoara 2026 📍 Sighișoara, Romania 🇷🇴 📅 October 2–4, 2026 Taste Romania: tasteatlas.com/romania For three days, eating your way through Sighișoara means walking between seven restaurants inside its medieval citadel. The festival’s first edition connects them through a Gastronomic Passport, with each kitchen preparing dishes that reflect the region’s food traditions. Each restaurant is paired with a winery, bringing local cooking and wine together at the table. Cooking demonstrations take place in the historic Butchers’ Bastion, while producers and artisans give visitors a closer look at the ingredients and work behind the food. Chamber and vocal concerts follow in the evenings, with the festival spread through the citadel rather than gathered in a single venue.

Romania street photography 📸 By: dusan milosic

King Carol I (left), Crown Prince Ferdinand (right), & Prince Carol (center) at the pontoon bridge raised by the Romanian Army over the Danube River at Nikopol during the Second Balkan War in 1913.

The great John Curatola addressing the question of relative comparison of Bagration v. Overlord & Dragoon

The image of Churchill drawing an alligator for Stalin in the middle of a conversation is so fun! (I suppose he had the time while he waited for someone to translate his words.)

„Sfaturi pentru bărbați la îndeplinirea cărora însă vor veghia femeile” 📖Realitatea Ilustrată octombrie 1939

The Times writes about the sensational memoir of a German Nazi bureaucrat in occupied Poland, recently discovered by the Pilecki Institute! “Sex, sleaze and schnapps: Nazi memoir reveals everyday business of terror” “A newly revealed account exposes the corruption, cruelty and casual indifference of a German administrator in occupied Poland.” Find this major article in The Times here: thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…... “This ‘spectacular’ private memoir was recently handed to the Pilecki Institute, a Polish government body that documents the crimes of 20th-century totalitarianism. It was available to The Times on condition that the author’s identity should be concealed at the behest of the donor.” The article also draws extensively on the research of Joanna Nikel from the Pilecki Institute: “Joanna Nikel, a researcher at the Pilecki Institute who has analysed the papers, said that while the memoirs of many Wehrmacht soldiers and high-ranking Nazis had already come to light, it was vanishingly rare for historians to obtain this kind of private testimony from the more junior civilian officials who had worked on the minutiae of the occupation.” The author of the memoir was a German lawyer and SS member who entered the administration of the General Government: “In 1943 the author, a self-described ‘Prussian’, was approaching his 30th birthday and had recently finished his doctorate in jurisprudence. He had joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in 1937, and applied for a job in the administration of the Generalgouvernement, a large tranche of central and eastern Poland that was regarded by the Germans as a colony to be stripped of food and resources for the Reich.” Moody places this individual story within the wider context of the German occupation of Poland: “They had decapitated Polish society by murdering the intelligentsia and shut down the schools and universities with the aim of degrading the Poles to the condition of illiterate labourers and ultimately expelling them to Siberia.” The account offers a rare insight into the everyday workings of the German occupation of Poland, not from the perspective of its highest-ranking perpetrators, but through the eyes of a junior civilian official involved in its administration. @olivernmoody @thetimes @InstPileckiego @ThePileckiInst

UPDATE: 🇲🇩 Moldova has confirmed five separate drone crash/debris sites across four districts following explosions this morning. Căușeni: 2 drones located after explosions at 07:50 and 08:24 Ștefan Vodă: 1 drone located after an explosion at 07:53 Anenii Noi: 1 drone located after an explosion at 08:00 Hîncești: 1 drone located after an explosion at 08:03

Frizeria Tinerimei București, anii '30 📷delcampe

Tulcea înainte de 1989, reconstituiri CNSAS. Documente video din arhiva Televiziunii Române, expuse în expoziția de pe faleză tinyurl.com/2cvf5a3e

ROMANIAN PARKAS—XS TO XL! $89.99 per and very comfy!