Viorica Agarici

Viorica Agarici was a Romanian nurse, born on 24 February 1886 and living until 1979. She was chairwoman of the local Red Cross in the city of Roman during the Second World War and the regime of Ion Antonescu. She is remembered as a protector of the Jewish population during the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, and she is one of the Romanians among the Righteous Among the Nations, the honour given by the Israeli people at Yad Vashem. Her place in the record of medicine rests on her service as a nurse and Red Cross leader, who used that humanitarian office to shield people at a time of persecution.