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Oral history interview with Alexei Manu

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.726.5 | RG Number: RG-50.572.0005

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    Oral history interview with Alexei Manu

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alexei Manu, born in Cobalna, Romania (present day Moldova) in 1926, discusses warm prewar Christian-Jewish relations; the arrival of German forces; seeing a large convoy of Jewish men, women, and children who stopped for the night in Cobalna; learning they were on their way to a nearby concentration camp; the reactions of villagers to the convoy, including attempts to give the prisoners water and steal their belongings; realizing the guards were Romanian; and what happened to his Jewish nieghbors who returned to the village after the war.
    Interviewee
    Alexei Manu
    Date
    interview:  2004 August 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Manu, Alexei.

    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, and it was conducted in Moldova for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Moldova Documentation Project on August 11, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
    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 08:59:27
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