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Elena, Queen Mother of Romania
On September 6, 1940, King Carol II was forced to resign because of his political failures. General Ion Antonescu took control of the country in an alliance with the Iron Guard. Mihai, Carol II’s 20-year-old son, was crowned, with the support of his mother, Elena, who became an important, influential figure in Romania. The people who were opposed to Antonescu – the heads of the historical parties, the Liberal Party and the Peasant Party – maintained contacts with the royal court, as did other political and social organizations. In the summer of 1941, when an expulsion order was issued to the Jews of Bukovina and Dorohoi, Rabbi Dr. Alexander Safran, the chief rabbi of Romanian Jewry, appealed to the head of the Orthodox Church, the Patriarch Nicodem. Unable to persuade Antonescu, Nicodem went to the Queen Mother, who was very moved upon hearing about the suffering of the expelled Jews. After turning to various influential people, the Queen Mother and the Patriarch appealed directly to Antonescu, who acquiesced and agreed that those Jews who had not yet been expelled from Cernăuţi / Chernivtsi (today Ukraine) could remain there temporarily. At the end of 1941, when news arrived of the desperate state of the Jews expelled to Transnistria, Rabbi Safran again appealed to the Queen Mother for help. She consulted with Monsignor Andrea Cassulo, the Pope’s emissary, and taking his advice, she turned to the acting prime minister, Mihai Antonescu. She persuaded him to instruct Radu Lecca, who was in charge of Jewish affairs, to send medical aid, clothing and food to the expelled Jews in Transnistria, who were living in ghettos and camps. The plight of the Jews was of such concern to the Queen Mother that she sent her aide, after midnight on a stormy night, to inform the chief rabbi that she had obtained approval to send them help. The help sent in 1942 saved the lives of thousands of Jews who had been expelled to Transnistria. The Queen Mother continued with her efforts to prevent the expulsion of Jews from the Regat, and did succeed in preventing the expulsion of the philologist, Barbu Lăzăreanu. In 1943 and early 1944, the Queen Mother helped advance the return from Transnistria of thousands of expelled Jews who had remained alive, including thousands of Jewish orphans. Despite a six-month delay, caused by Adolph Eichmann’s intervention, the orphans were returned thanks to Queen Elena’s determined efforts.
On March 11, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Queen Mother Elena as Righteous Among the Nations.