Vasile Gafencu - Wikipedia
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Vasile Gafencu | |
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| Member of the Moldovan Parliament | |
| In office 1917–1918 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 February 1886 Sîngerei |
| Died | 16 March 1942 (aged 56) Arkhangelsk |
| Political party | National Moldavian Party |
| Children | Valeriu, Valentina, Eleonora, and Elizabeta |
Vasile Gafencu (1 February 1886 – 16 March 1942) was a Bessarabian politician.
He was the father of Valeriu Gafencu (1921–1952), nicknamed The Saint of Prisons.[1]
He served as Member of the Moldovan Parliament (1917–1918). After the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina in 1940, Gafencu was deported to Siberia by the Soviet authorities.
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Moldovan stamp, 1998
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The standing man is Vasile Gafencu
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- Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul Țării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
- Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
- ^ "Radio Romania International". www.rri.ro. Archived from the original on 2010-12-29.