You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Romania’s Ministry of Energy has given the green light to a 1.5 GW solar panel factory to be built in the northeastern part of the country Romania’s Ministry of Energy has approved €32.92 million ($27.2 million) in state aid for the construction of a 1.5 GW solar panel factory SC Heliomit SRL will build the manufacturing facility in Bârlad The ministry approved the funds under the country’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) is one of three solar manufacturing projects approved under the PNRR The three projects are expected to annually produce more than 1.7 GW of solar cells and panels and have received more than €47 million in state aid 140 MW manufacturing and recycling facility in Sfântu Gheorghe The Romanian authorities recently launched a 1.5 GW renewables tender to procure 1 GW of wind and 500 MW of solar. 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View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close and impatiently await the day when we can be reunited he went on board the Struma at Constanța port on his way to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) There were approximately 780 Ma'apilim (illegal immigrants) on board the ship reached the port at Istanbul but the Ma'apilim were not allowed to disembark the distribution of which caused actual brawls and happy that they could establish some kind of contact with the outside world Everyone huddled up with their families to discuss how best to fill the small space available on the postcards that had been so difficult to obtain but we had to express everything on a tiny postcard with the same intensity as when they were used to describe our journey the food and the sanitation situation on the ship onto the edge of which they tied something like a nib and wrote… In a postcard written on board of the Struma on 18 February 1942 we will be able to continue our journey and reach our destination the ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine and all the passengers except for one drowned in the Black Sea In 1956, Cecila Mosko, Ozias's sister submitted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem in his memory The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il the leader of the insolvency and restructuring market in Romania has auctioned off the agricultural and industrial assets which make up the Mândra oil mill worth RON 8,960,000 million (approximately EUR 1.8 million) The asset package, sold by CITR as receiver of Mândra SA, a company undergoing reorganization, includes the Mândra oil mill and its related movables and immovables. “The transaction of the Mândra factory is an important step and a continuation of our efforts to find investors with a wide vision over the future of Romanian businesses who wish to capitalize the acquired assets with the purpose of further generating value for the economy an important landmark on Romania’s agro-industrial map had a significant historical role in the processing and distribution of agricultural products and of agro-industrial derivatives the potential of the sold assets is not limited to the development of the agricultural industry but provides multiple other possibilities of transformation expansion or usage of the space for new and varied domains,” says Florin Constantin The Mândra oil mill is in an easily accessible area of Vaslui County close to sources of raw materials in Vaslui The sale of the asset package was made through public auction, at a market value of over 90%, after important local and national companies in industry and agribusiness have shown interest and attended the auction. Mândra SA Bârlad belongs to the former Republica Bârlad Oil Company and was founded as an oil mill, in 1911, on its current location, following the initiative of great Romanian industrialist Nicolae Malaxa, and started only with hydraulic presses powered by steam produced by a locomotive. the mill has constantly undergone upgrade and re-technologization processes The mill is nowadays acknowledged for the quality of its products and services and as the creator of the Floris and Clariol brands the Bârlad oil mill was faced with a fire that destroyed over 80% of its Pressing Division impacting both production technological equipment We use cookies for keeping our website reliable and secure providing social media features and to analyse how our website is used Business Insider SRL is a carrier of data with personal character registered in the “Registrul de Evidenta a Prelucrarilor de Date cu Caracter Personal” with the no Romania-Insider.com is a trademark registered with the help of NOMENIUS and all exclusivity rights are reserved to the owner of Business Insider SRL Any unauthorized use will be sanctioned according to the provisions of trademarks law 84/1998 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page fails to overturn 2003 death certificate because he appealed too late In a case reminiscent of a Kafka novel a Romanian court has ruled that a 63-year-old man is dead despite what would appear to be convincing evidence to the contrary: the man himself appearing alive and well in court Constantin Reliu asked the court in the town of Barlad to overturn a death certificate obtained by his wife after he had spent more than a decade in Turkey during which time he was out of contact with his family and would have to remain officially deceased although I’m alive,” a bemused Reliu told local media outlets “I have no income and because I am listed dead and appears to have cut off all contact with his family After years of silence from her estranged husband Reliu’s wife obtained a backdated death certificate for him The Romanian daily Adevarul said Reliu’s wife had argued in court that having heard nothing from her husband since 1999 she had assumed he had died in an earthquake while in Turkey The paper said Reliu believes she sought the death certificate in order to annul the marriage and allow her to remarry He may never have found out about his death in his homeland had he not been apprehended by Turkish authorities earlier this year and deported back to Romania because of expired documents Reliu had planned to renew his passport in Romania and return to Turkey he was detained by immigration officers who informed him he had died in 2003 Reliu said he wants to return to Turkey and has set up a small company there but is now faced with a confusing legal battle to regain his identity and obtain a passport A spokeswoman for the court explained to local news outlets that Reliu had been too late with his appeal against the death certificate and had thus lost the case The ruling is apparently final and cannot be appealed against Sign In Register Waltmer (Walter) Roeder was born on November 27 He passed away at the age of 88 years He lived, loving the farm life and his family. Walter farmed all his life in the Ashmont area.  He was a man who loved to help and had many friends.  Walter taught his children and grandchildren the meaning of courage and fun.  Everyone who met him said he was a gentle and caring man.    He will be greatly missed by his loving wife of 51 years Audrey Roeder (nee Williams) His Children Kathy (Cade) Ronald and sister Alma (Marvin) Riezer. Sisters and Brothers-in-law Glenda and Herb Albrect Bill and Selma Roeder, his mother and father-in law Harry and Mary Williams brother and sister-in-law Carol and Dave Peckham nephew Perry Peckham and his grandson Lucas Renauld.  Walter has been cremated and there will be a private celebration of life at a later date.   More National Obituaries > Share to WhatsApp Copy Link Print Send by e-mail Share to Classroom Add to Favorites var tag = document.createElement('script'); tag.src = "https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api"; var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag slider=jQuery(".royalSlider").royalSlider({ // autoplay options go gere enabled: false,//true adina imageScaleMode: 'fit-if-smaller' slider = jQuery(".royalSlider").data('royalSlider'); const fullscreenButton = jQuery(".rsFullscreenBtn"); // ???? 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"Bear" belonged to Dutch-born psychologist Fred Lessing helped Fred cope with the loneliness and separation Years after the war Yad Vashem learned of the precious toy requesting that he loan the teddy bear to Yad Vashem in order to tell his moving story "I never said goodbye to him," Fred responded almost immediately but after "talking" to the teddy bear and explaining the importance of remembering the Holocaust and telling his story to children Lessing agreed to loan "Bear" to Yad Vashem Arrangements were made to bring this irreplaceable remnant of the Holocaust to Yad Vashem from the United States These preparations included insuring the item When asked by the insurance company how much the item was valued at then Yad Vashem Curator Haviva Peled Carmeli expressed the opinion that it should be valued like the Mona Lisa during an official state visit of a Romanian President to Israel and Yad Vashem the President toured the exhibition entitled "No Child's Play," where "Bear" was on display Hearing the story of how Yad Vashem received this artifact the President was so moved that he inquired what he could do to help Yad Vashem in their mission to educate about the Holocaust Yad Vashem had been trying to obtain religious artifacts from prewar Romanian Jewish synagogues to display in the newly constructed Synagogue on the Mount of Remembrance Director of the Yad Vashem Museums Division Yehudit Inbar took the opportunity and requested assistance in obtaining these sacred artifacts saying that any institution that values a ragged doll equal to that of the Mona Lisa would surely safeguard these national treasures arrangements were made to transfer many of the Judaica items now displayed in the Synagogue after undergoing a careful process of conservation in Yad Vashem's professional laboratories the holiday that marks the receiving and acceptance of the Torah by Moses and the newly formed Jewish nation our appreciation for the centrality of the Synagogue in Jewish life naturally grows stronger like our Jewish brothers and sisters over thousands of years remember the hallowed scene as the Torah was given to the people of Israel on Mount Sinai Through its unique display in its functioning Synagogue so too does Yad Vashem uphold the commandment of Remembrance – Remembrance of the Holocaust We must ensure that the memory of the Holocaust never fades and the faith of our persecuted fellow Jews in a better future serves us as we move forward in the shadow of renewed antisemitism across the globe our mission is unwavering and remains more relevant than ever today which owns the Rulmenti Barlad bearings plant announced today it will invest USD 18 million in its Romanian factory in the next three years although the domestic market is flooded with counterfeited bearings from Asia and sales plunged 83 percent in the last five years to USD 2.5 million said that around 70 percent of the URB branded bearings in Romania are counterfeited Moreover the CEO called for the government to support domestic production and set up anti-dumping tariffs against counterfeit products made in China “The numbers say it all. If in 2007, the market for bearings sold in Romania totaled USD 15 million, at present it has fallen to 2.5 million,” said Adiguzel. said the Turkish group will continue to fight against counterfeiting in the same time investing up to 10 percent of the turnover for business development said the government will offer full support to the Turkish group adding that Rulmenti Barlad is the largest employers in Eastern Romania Minister Bode went on Thursday in Turkey where he met with the Turkish vice-minister, and with the ministers of Justice, Economy and Energy. The two countries pledged to increase economic cooperation. but the group plans to open a new manufacturing facility in India He added that in the next three years, apart from the Romanian investment, the group will put USD 12 million in the ART plant in Turkey, and USD 8 million for the MGM plant in Hungary. By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org A new book tells the story of the “Fusgeyers,” or Jewish wayfarers who walked across the country in hopes of reaching more hospitable locales abroad 6 (JTA) — Roughly a century after tens of thousands of impoverished and persecuted Jews walked across Romania in hopes of reaching more hospitable locales abroad a Canadian writer-photographer has chronicled their story Jill Culiner’s book follows the footsteps of the largely forgotten “Fusgeyers” — the word is Yiddish for “wayfarers” or “foot-wanderers.” As Culiner recounts in “Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers,” she became obsessed with the subject after seeing a mention of the Fusgeyers in Irving Howe’s “World of Our Fathers.” Like much Jewish immigration in history When persecution in Romania worsened about 1899 tens of thousands of Jews sold their meager possessions formed large groups for protection and marched hundreds of miles Most groups consisted of between 40 and 300 migrants Representatives of Jewish aid organizations met the weary pedestrians at towns along the Austro-Hungarian border and provided them with food and shelter as well as train and ship tickets to their ultimate destinations As many as 70,000 Jews took part in the pedestrian exodus that began in 1900 the American Jewish Yearbook of 1903 reported that some 200 to 300 Jews were streaming out of Romania each week the outbreak of war reduced the flow to a trickle Culiner found only a few historical works such as Joseph Kissman’s “The Immigration of Romanian Jews up to 1914,” that dealt with the subject By far the richest documentary source was Jacob Finkelstein’s “Memoir of a Fusgeyer from Romania to America,” a Yiddish manuscript held by the New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research A New Yorker who had trekked out of Romania with a pioneering group called the Barlad Fusgeyers Finkelstein had submitted the work to YIVO in 1942 in response to a contest meant to attract immigrant stories The Barlad Fusgeyers left the town of Barlad in April 1900 and journeyed some 200 miles in a large semicircle around the base of the Carpathian Mountains They supported themselves by staging theatrical performances and selling brochures in Jewish towns on their route It was the director of a Jewish social club whose members sometimes staged amateur theatrics who first came up with “a plan about how we can get to America without money,” Finkelstein recorded The plan had been so simple to work out that we wondered why we hadn’t thought of it before.” Consisting of 75 single men and three women the Barlad Fusgeyers generated much publicity and public support and received gifts of food and clothing from both Jews and Romanian peasants along their route In many places they were welcomed as heroes Their success encouraged hundreds of other groups to follow The Fusgeyers’ reception in Central Europe they were not permitted to continue on foot once they reached the border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire everyone looked down on them as poor refugees,” Culiner said “The assimilated Jews of Vienna and Budapest and Germany were especially embarrassed by the Jews from the East They were afraid they would once again awaken anti-Semitism in the non-Jewish communities.” Culiner who learned Yiddish in order to read Finkelstein’s story provides generous translated excerpts in her book; his journey became the template for her own “Where Jacob Finkelstein and the Fusgeyers slept in fields When they were housed by the Jewish community then I slept in hotels.” A veteran traveler who also speaks German Turkish and “really bad Hungarian,” she traveled with a male companion in search of synagogues teahouses and other settings that Finkelstein had described but often she found few physical relics or traces of a locality’s Jewish past this synagogue,” she wrote about the former prayer house in Ramnicu Sarat “It has the air of a long-deserted theatre in which the abandoned stage is set for a forgotten play.” The few remaining Jews she encountered greeted her warmly she said; many sadly acknowledged that they were part of the closing chapter of Romanian Jewish history ‘What’s going to happen to the Jews of Romania?’ and he said ‘We’re going to die and we’re going be buried in the graveyard and that’ll be the end There’ll be nobody to replace us.’ ” Numerous museums en route furnished documentary evidence of the Fusgeyers and more scattered material turned up in larger institutions in Budapest Particularly rich troves surfaced in Paris and New York With the help of some thick files found at the Canadian Jewish Congress Archives in Montreal Culiner concluded her quest by following the Fusgeyer trail to a variety of remote northern Ontario towns and Jewish farming communities in Saskatchewan Large numbers of Fusgeyers also settled in New York Paris and the towns of Rosh Pina and Zichron Ya’acov in what was then British-mandate Palestine In addition to “Finding Home,” the Fusgeyer saga may also be gaining new currency from another recent book and perhaps soon from a proposed documentary film as well Florida-based Lighthouse Press published The Wayfarers a thick historical novel about the Fusgeyers by Los Angeles writer Stuart Tower The company has optioned documentary film rights to Yale Strom Toronto-based Sumach Press will soon extend distribution of “Finding Home” to the United States and Britain who recalled that she was perpetually amazed during her journey at how thoroughly the Fusgeyer legend had been erased from popular memory “People just don’t know the story except for some Romanians of Jewish descent,” she said “Even the children of Fusgeyers don’t know about it.” JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent I accept the Privacy Policy. run under the partnership between the Vodafone Romania Foundation and React Association will finance the modernization of 24 blood centres in 2017 The blood centers are located all over the country (Ploiesti and the others will be endowed with modern specialized medical equipment ”A Chance for Life” program has been financed by the Vodafone Romania Foundation with approximately EUR 1 million over the last nine years “We have thus fulfilled our promise made three years ago when we started the program. The renovation and endowment of the transfusion centers is one of the investment priorities set by the foundation in the healthcare field. This is one of the four strategic areas of our activity, besides education, social services and volunteering,” said Angela Galeta, director of Fundatia Vodafone Romania. More than 620,000 blood donors and patients benefited from the program up to now of whom more than 414,000 patients received the blood they needed for transfusions “A Chance for Life” started with a series of annual information and education activities on the importance of voluntary and periodical donation and continued with several mobile campaigns of blood donation organized in public spaces university campuses and company headquarters ”A Chance for Life” program will include in 2017 more than 20 mobile blood donation campaigns to be organised during this summer throughout the country Such campaigns will also run for the Vodafone Romania employees Since the ”A Chance for Life” program has been launched, Romanian blood donation centres registered in 2016 a decrease in the average donors’ age at the national level, for the first time after 1989. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time Warsaw: A Romanian court has upheld a death notice against a man despite him being alive and present in the court at the time The decision by judges in the eastern Romanian town of Barlad left Constantin Reliu legally dead despite him showing all the vital signs of life A very much alive Constantin Reliu speaks to media I am dead but I'm still alive," he said as he left the court and because of the fact that I am dead I cannot hire a lawyer In fact I can't do anything in this country." Reliu left Romania in 1992 to work in Turkey applied successfully for a death notice in 2016 Her husband first became aware of his death when he tried to return to Romania in January after the Turkish authorities expelled him because his papers had expired "The head of the border police at the airport called me to his office turned on his computer and showed it to me 'Constantin Reliu declared dead by his wife'," Reliu told Digi24 He appealed to the Barlad court to overturn his death notice "The length of time that the defendant had not contacted his family but also the fact that he last entered from Turkey was on July 8 1999 made credible the claim by the spouse of Constantin Reliu that he had died in unknown circumstances," the court said as it dismissed his appeal I am dead but I'm still alive,\\\" he said as he left the court In fact I can't do anything in this country.\\\" \\\"The head of the border police at the airport called me to his office 'Constantin Reliu declared dead by his wife',\\\" Reliu told Digi24 \\\"The length of time that the defendant had not contacted his family but also the fact that he last entered from Turkey was on July 8 1999 made credible the claim by the spouse of Constantin Reliu that he had died in unknown circumstances,\\\" the court said as it dismissed his appeal who had left to work in Turkey in the 1990s was stupefied to learn upon his return to Romania in January that his family had obtained a death certificate for him in 2016 Bucharest:  A Romanian man is legally alive once again two years after his family reported him dead after not hearing from him for decades The 63-year-old cook succeeded on his second try to convince judges in the northeastern town of Barlad of his continued existence Despite appearing in court in nearby Vaslui in person in March Though they did not spell out the reasons for the ruling Romanian media said the deadline for challenging a death certificate had expired Refusing to exist with only a "living dead" status Despite the new court ruling he is not completely out of the woods since anyone doubting the truth of his existence can appeal the court's ruling within 30 days Reliu has had to rely on neighbours for support because without official proof of his existence he has been enable to find work or receive state benefits