Victor Zâmbrea

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Victor Zâmbrea
Born	1924 Reni, Ismail county
Died	2000 Chişinău
Nationality	Moldova

Victor Zâmbrea (1924, Reni, Ismail county, Romania – 2000, Chişinău, Moldova) was a Bessarabian painter.

Early years

Victor Zâmbrea was born in 1924 in Reni, Ismail county, Bessarabia, Romania. In 1936, he finished the Gymnasium (Junior High School) in native Reni, and graduated from the Evening Lyceum (High School) in Bucharest in 1940. In 1941, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts, Bucharest. In 1963, he graduated from the University of Popular Art in Moscow. He was a member of the Union of Plastic Artists of the Moldovan SSR.

In 1942, he voluntarily enrolled in the Romanian Royal Navy's School of Scuba diving in Constanţa.

Anti-communist activity

In November 1944, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD, and sent to an NKVD filtration point in Chişinău. Released in June 1945, he went to Izmail, where he joined the anti-Soviet resistance group "Vocea Basarabiei" (English: The Voice of Bessarabia). In May 1948, he was arrested for Romanian propaganda activity. He succeeded to escape from his prison, and changed his name to Dumbrovschi.

Victor Zâmbrea then established himself in Chişinău, and made contacts with an anti-Soviet resistance group in the city. In the evening of July 6, 1949, he was arrested within the course of Operation Yug of mass deportation of ca. 40,000 civilians of the Moldovan SSR to Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Soon afterwards, interrogation and investigation of his identity started. He was accused in virtue of Article 58 of the Russian SFSR (on the grounds that the investigation was being carried in Russia, not in Moldova) of "anti-Soviet propaganda, and [being a] traitor of the Soviet people". The March 1953 amnesty decree after the death of Joseph Stalin saved him from capital punishment by execution squad. A year later he obtained a transfer to the city of Tyumen to work under guard as painter in the Railroad Club.

Post detention years

Following his release in 1958, he settled in Chişinău, where he worked as a painter in the University Central Store. Until his retirement in 1984, he also worked as a painter for the Fund of Plastic Arts in Chişinău. Since 1954, his works have participated in various expositions.

In 1994, he opened a personal exposition "Bessarabian Romanians deported to Siberia" in Chişinău. His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

v t e Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)

Political entities	Bessarabia Bukovina Chernivtsi oblast Budjak Moldavian Democratic Republic Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR

Events	Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Răzeni Massacre Romania during World War II Political prisoners in Soviet Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Deportation of Romanians in the Soviet Union 13 June 1941 deportation Operation Yug Operation North Bălţi POW camp Moldavian famine (1946-1947) 1989 Moldova civil unrest

Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcaşii lui Ştefan Bessarabian Revolutionaries Organization Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Mişcarea Nordică National Patriotic Front Pământenirea Sabia Dreptăţii "Vasile Lupu" High School Group Vocea Basarabiei

Prisoners and dissidents	Victor Andreev Alexandru Baltagă Vladimir Bivol Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Constantin Condrat Dumitru Crihan Ion Codreanu Alexandru Duca Gheorghe Ghimpu Valeriu Graur Tudor Goncearencu Pan Halippa Ion Istrati Nicole Istrati Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Ion Moraru Mihai Moraru Mihai Moroşanu Vasile Odobescu Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Andrei Sănduţă Isidor Sârbu Andrei Stoica Alexandru Şoltoianu Ilarion Tǎutu Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgǎr Ion Vasilenco Vasile Vâlcu Victor Zâmbrea

Passive dissidentism	Loghin Alexeev Nicolae Anestiade Vsevolod Anghel Cemârtan Corlǎteanu Ion Druţǎ Iordache Ionescu Serafim Saka Nicolae Testemiţanu Vasile Vasilache Grigore Vieru

Persecutors	NKVD KGB Securitate 237th NKVD Regiment 13th NKVD Division

Organisations, places, events	Cenaclul Mateevici Literatura şi Arta Mişcarea Democraticǎ Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Marea Adunare Naţionalǎ Fall of Communism in Moldova Glasul Deşteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Museum of Victims of Communism Muzeul Memoriei Neamului

1988-1991, people	Nicolae Costin Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Gheorghe Ghimpu Ion Hadîrcǎ Dumitru Matcovschi

The political diaspora	Bessarabian and Bukovinian refugees Pro Basarabia şi Bucovina Anton Crihan Paul Goma Nicolae Lupan Grigore Singurel

See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

Persondata
Name	Zambrea, Victor
Alternative names
Short description	Romanian activist
Date of birth	1924
Place of birth	Reni, Ismail county
Date of death	2000
Place of death	Chişinău

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Victor Zâmbrea

Early years

Anti-communist activity

Post detention years

See also