Jewish community concerned about Paul Goma's visit to Chisinau

The Jewish community in Moldova is concerned about the visit that writer Paul Goma is to pay to Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a communique, the community says they do not agree with the ideas promoted by the writer, who considers there was no Holocaust during the Second World War. Representatives of the Jewish community consider it is a mistake to give state awards and medals to writer Paul Goma in Moldova as this can generate a religious and national conflict. Paul Goma was named citizen of honor of Chisinau under an order issued by Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca. The idea of justifying and simultaneously denying the Holocaust is promoted by the writer in his work “June 28 – July 3 Red Week or Bessarabia and the Jews”. In 2008, the Prosecutor General's Office of Moldova opened a legal case over inciting of ethnic groups to conflict and denationalization, elements that can be found in this work. The case was sent to the Centru District Court, it is said in the communique. Paul Goma will come to Chisinau on October 2. He will have a number of meetings with his readers. Paul Goma was born in Bessarabia. After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed, the Goma family took refuge in Romania, over the Prut.