Vasile Gafencu | |
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| Member of the Moldovan Parliament | |
| In office 1917–1918 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 February 1886 Sîngerei |
| Died | 16 March 1942 (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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