Forensic Files

Season 5

Episode 13: Unholy Vows

The story of Archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, former head of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America, is related. Following World War II, Trifa emigrated from Romania to the U.S. In 1957, survivors of Nazi atrocities in Bucharest recognized him as having directed a bloody 1941 attack against Jews. He was deported in 1984 and died three years later.