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Oral history interview with Ion Cârhană

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.726.154 | RG Number: RG-50.572.0154

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    Oral history interview with Ion Cârhană

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ion Cârhană, born in Hirova, Romania (Moldova) in 1921, discusses the roundup of his town’s Jewish community by Romanian forests and peasants; guarding their makeshift prison; being asked by Romanian forces to bury bodies because of his pre-military status; witnessing a mass shooting; details of the killing process; his fear during the shooting; burying 82 bodies in mass graves; the shooting of a Jewish man who escaped the mass killing; looting of Jewish property by local villagers; and the arrest by the Soviets after the war of the local villagers who participated in the killing.
    Interviewee
    Ion Cârhană
    Date
    interview:  2010 June 10
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Cârhană, Ion.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Ion Cârhană in Moldova for the Museum's Moldova Documentation Project on June 10, 2010.
    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:00:25
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