Oral history interview with Mihail Purice
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak, and it was conducted in Moldova for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Moldova Documentation Project on August 12, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Mihail Purice
- Purice, Mihail.
Subjects
- Shooting (Execution)--Moldova.
- Romania--Ethnic relations.
- Massacres--Moldova.
- Jews--Persecutions--Moldova.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Moldova.
- Romania--Armed Forces.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Mass burials--Moldova.
- Holocaust survivors--Moldova.
- Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Moldovan.
- Gura Camencii (Moldova)
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- Moldova.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moldova.
Genre
- Oral History