Viorel Achim - Dnyeszter-melléki (transznisztriai) kényszermunka

"There is a debate in historiography about the concept of "forced labor" (forced labor, Zwangsarbeit). There are differences of opinion among experts regarding the content of the concept, but they all agree that there are characteristics that suit both the Jews and the Roma of the Transnistria region. Ethnic, they are people deported from a racist point of view to a foreign country, forced to work where they were transported against their will; rounded up and made to do work that had nothing to do with their professional qualifications; worked without a contract, for an indefinite period of time and without any prospect of ever they can return to their original residence; they usually worked without pay, the remuneration was exhausted in providing food and accommodation for them and their families."

Viorel Achim is a researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy.
Research areas: Romania's national minorities in the 19th and 20th centuries. century; Romania's nationality policy between 1940-1944; the history of the Romanian and Central Eastern European Roma; the holocaust; International relations of Central-Eastern Europe in the XIII-XV. century; the history of medieval Transylvania and Bánság; Catholicism and the Romanians in the XIII-XV. century.
He is author or co-author of several historical works