Together with the “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” Centre in Lublin and the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR Warsaw), we invite you to a meeting with historian and documentary filmmaker Adrian Cioflâncă (Romania) on Thursday, 5 February 2026, at 6:00 p.m. The event will be devoted to a dark chapter of 1941—the rebellion of the Iron Guard legionnaires and the Bucharest pogrom.
The programme includes the premiere screening of the 30-minute documentary film “Rebelia legionistów i pogrom w Bukareszcie”, featuring archival footage from 1941.
Authors: Adrian Cioflâncă, Teodora Drăgoi
Producer: Boris Velimirovici, TVR
The event offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the European dimension of anti-Jewish violence during World War II. The broader context of extermination policies and antisemitic violence in countries allied with the Third Reich remains relatively little known to the wider public. Adrian Cioflâncă’s visit to Lublin will not only present the results of Romanian research, but also open a comparative discussion on archives, testimonies, visual representations, and historical responsibility.
The meeting will be moderated by Łukasz Krzyżanowski (Institute of Central Europe).
Adrian Cioflâncă is a historian specializing in the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust. He currently serves as Director of the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and is a member of the College of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. He has extensive experience working with archives in Romania, Israel, and the United States related to 19th- and 20th-century antisemitism and the Holocaust in Europe. He uses documentary and photographic materials in academic research, public-facing articles (published on www.scena9.ro and www.revista22.ro), and documentary films. He has made several short films on the Holocaust for Romanian Television (TVR) and, together with Radu Jude, co-directed two documentaries: Ieșirea trenurilor din gară (2020) and Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est (2022).
Adrian Cioflâncă has also conducted field research that contributed to the identification of several mass graves and Holocaust memorial sites. In 2004, he was a member of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (2003–2004) and contributed to its Final Report, on the basis of which the Romanian state acknowledged responsibility for its role in the Holocaust. Since 2005, he has been part of Romania’s delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. He was a Tziporah Wiesel Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (2009). He has co-edited eight volumes; the most recent, Antisemitic Speech and Violence in Modern Romania, a thematic issue of Revue d’Histoire des Juifs de Roumanie, nos. 4–5 (20–21), 2019–2020 (Hasefer, Bucharest, 2020). He has published numerous scholarly articles on Holocaust history, the history of communism, political violence, cultural history, and the theory of history.
Screening of the Documentary Rebelia legionistów i pogrom w Bukareszcie and a Meeting with the Director