Vasile Gafencu

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.

Biography

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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Bibliography

• Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul Țării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998,
• Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)

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