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]

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.

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  Moldovan stamp, 1998
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  The standing man is Vasile Gafencu

• 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)

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

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