Reference Type: Aggregated Database
Author: Nathan Beyrak
Year: 2004
Title: Oral history interview with Constantin Romanescu
Date Accessed: 25.09.2014
Type of Work: video recording, interview
Short Title: Oral history interview with Constantin Romanescu
Keywords: Jewish Minority, Holocaust survivors, Oral History
Abstract: Constantin Romanescu, born in 1926 in Romania, describes his family; prewar relations between local Jews and non-Jews; the pogrom in Dorohoi in 1940; details of looting and mass murders; the Romanian military bringing order to the city; restrictions placed upon the Jewish community; the occupation of Dorohoi by German soldiers at the beginning of the war; hearing stories from Polish refugees about atrocities committed by German forces; the declaration of war at Piatra Neamt; the sight of a burial pit; a mass shooting of Jews in Haţeg; his father's assistance to many Jewish people; the deportation of the Jews of Dorohoi; the return of local Jews after the war; and receiving threats after the war when he offered to testify about wartime events.
Notes: transcript notes available on link
URL: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517763
Name of Database: Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project
Database Provider: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Language: Romanian