This is first time I heard about racist coin in any news. A museum in United States write a letter to Bank of Romania, asking them to withdraw a coin because a Patriarch or highest ranking Bishop in one of the coin held anti Semitic views and called for Jews to leave Romania. Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. The genocide of these six million people was a genocide of two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust. The word holocaust has been used since the 18th century to refer to the violent deaths of a large number of people.
Photo by Wikipedia: Patriarch Miron Cristea at the center of this picture.Radu Ioanid, a director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said he was "shocked" by the bank's decision to mint the coin depicting late Patriarch Miron Cristea, who led the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1925 to 1939. Ioanid said the patriarch, who was prime minister from 1938-1939, was responsible for revising the citizenship law, stripping about 225,000 Jews or 37 percent of the Jewish population of their Romanian citizenship. Ioanid demanded the bank withdraw the coin in a private letter sent to the National Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu on July 29 and later sent to the Associated Press.
Photo by National Bank of Romania: Patriarch Miron Cristea coin.The National Bank of Romania spokesman Mugur Stet said Monday the coin was part of a collectors' series of five coins, minted in silver, with the country's five patriarchs who have headed the Romanian Orthodox Church since 1925, and not a special coin dedicated just to Cristea. Romania today has only 6,000 Jews. The country's governments have at times denied that the extermination of some 300,000 Jews and Gypsies during Holocaust even happened. You can found more information about this coin at Bank of Romania website.
Source: AFP, Wikipedia.
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