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Oral history interview with Mihail Purice

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.726.12 | RG Number: RG-50.572.0012

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    Oral history interview with Mihail Purice

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mihail Purice, born in Gura Camencii, Floreşti district, Romania (present day Moldova) in 1926, discusses the outbreak of fighting between the Soviets and Germans in 1941; the arrival of German and Romanian troops; seeing convoys of Jews being taken to be shot; hearing the shooting; seeing the mass graves; not being permitted to watch the shootings; helping a pregnant Jewish woman; and his family’s relations with their Jewish neighbors before and during the war.
    Interviewee
    Mihail Purice
    Date
    interview:  2004 August 12
    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
    Purice, Mihail.

    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 12, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:59:29
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