Vasile Gafencu

Vasile Gafencu
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1917–1918
Personal details
Born	(1886-02-01)1 February 1886 Sîngerei
Died	16 March 1942(1942-03-16) (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]

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.

Gallery

• 
  Moldovan stamp, 1998
• 
  The standing man is Vasile Gafencu

Bibliography

• 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)

Notes

1. "Radio Romania International". www.rri.ro. Archived from the original on 2010-12-29.

External links

• Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
• Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria