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Oral history interview with Afanasie Axentiuc

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.726.55 | RG Number: RG-50.572.0055

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    Oral history interview with Afanasie Axentiuc

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Afansie Axentiuc, born in 1923 in Pociumbăuţi, Romania (present day Moldova), describes a roundup, deportation, and mass shooting of Pociumbăuţi Jews by Romanian gendarmes in 1941; a Jewish man who set his house on fire and killed himself and his family, rather than be deported; a communist villager who was saved by a Cuzist villager from being killed; the deportation of the Roma population; and the construction of a monument for those who died during the war.
    Interviewee
    Afanasie Axentiuc
    Date
    interview:  2007 February 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Axentiuc, Afanasie.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:59:46
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