Cârhană Ion, a.n. 1921, s. Hirova (Călărași)

Ion Cârhană, born in Hirova, Romania (Moldova) in 1921, discusses the roundup of his town’s Jewish community by Romanian forests and peasants; guarding their makeshift prison; being asked by Romanian forces to bury bodies because of his pre-military status; witnessing a mass shooting; details of the killing process; his fear during the shooting; burying 82 bodies in mass graves; the shooting of a Jewish man who escaped the mass killing; looting of Jewish property by local villagers; and the arrest by the Soviets after the war of the local villagers who participated in the killing.

Acest interviu a fost realizat în cadrul United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Moldova Documentation Project