Reference Type: Aggregated Database
Author: Nathan Beyrak
Year: 2004
Title: Oral history interview with Aurel Giurcā
Date Accessed: 25.09.2014
Type of Work: video recording, interview
Short Title: Oral history interview with Aurel Giurcā
Keywords: Jewish Minority, Holocaust survivors, Oral History
Abstract: Aurel Giurcā, born in 1927 in Călăraşi, Romania, describes the persecution of the Jewish community by local townspeople, which included cruelties and theft of Jewish owned belongings; the local townspeople, including his family, who maintained positive relationships with the Jewish community; hiding several Jewish families in his basement during the war; the sight of a train full of Jews, many already dead or dying; his father and other local townspeople who attempted to assist the surviving Jews; the disapproval of local townspeople of the Iron Guard; the trial of members of the Iron Guard after the war; and his profession as an attorney.
URL: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517760
Name of Database: Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project
Database Provider: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Language: Romanian