Viorel Achim is an historian at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest, Romania. He is a specialist in Romanian history, particularly on the history of Roma in Romania, and the author of The Gypsies in the History of Romania (in Romanian), which appeared in 1998. He will be the Charles H. Revson Fellow in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies from October to December 2000, conducting research for his latest project, “The Deportation of the Romanian Gypsies (Roma) to Transnistria (1942-1944).”
