Safta Marin memoir
Extent and Medium
folder
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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.
Subjects
- Romania.
- Clejani (Romania)
- Families.
Genre
- Document
- Personal Narratives.
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