Safta Marin memoir

Identifier
irn501981
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0319
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this memoir from Marin Safta on June 11, 1998.

Scope and Content

Contains a memoir, 5 pages, typed in Romanian, by Safta Marin (born Georghe Apostol), originally of Clejani, Romania. In the memoir, he describes his childhood as a Roma/Sinti, his experiences traveling by wagon as part of a deportation into Russia in 1942, and the starvation and deaths of members of his family. Born Georghe Apostol, after the war he named himself Safta Marin after a brother who died during the war.

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