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    Pitești Prison (Romanian: Închisoarea Pitești) was a penal facility in Pitești, Romania, best remembered for the reeducation experiment (also known as...
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    Piteşti", in Adevărul, June 17, 2017; retrieved June 25, 2017 (in Romanian) Sporting Pitești (official site) "Orașe înfrățite" (in Romanian). Pitești...
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    Eugen Țurcanu (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    that terrorized their fellow inmates during the late 1940's at Pitești Prison in Pitești, Romania. In a well publicized trial, Turcanu and fifteen of his...
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  • the Pitești prison staff was dismissed or transferred (warden Alexandru Dumitrescu was replaced by Anton Kovacs) and the relocation of all the Pitești political...
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    Ion Ioanid (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    detained at a Securitate location, but moved to the local prison. For Ioanid, the Pitești Prison detention, although a short one this time, compared to future...
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    Richard Wurmbrand (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    Divine Service. Wurmbrand, who passed through the penal facilities of Pitești, Craiova, Gherla, the Danube–Black Sea Canal, Văcărești, Malmaison, Cluj...
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  • Sorin Bottez (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    at prisons in Aiud, Galați, Gherla, Jilava, Lugoj, Oradea, Pitești, and Târgșor. Throughout his detention, he was reportedly tortured by the prison guards...
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  • Virgil Solomon (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    Solomon was held from 1947 to 1955 as a political prisoner in prisons at Jilava, Pitești, Aiud, Ocnele Mari and, finally, Sighet, where he was brought...
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  • Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    1949 to 8 years of prison for "conspiracy". In 1957 he became one of the torturers in the "experiment" taking place in the Pitești Prison, violent infighting...
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    military junta during the Dirty War, the Pinochet regime in Chile, and Pitești Prison in the Romanian People's Republic. abbreviated officially as KL or more...
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  • Some prisons in Romania formerly housed political prisoners, both during successive dictatorships of 1938–1944 and during the subsequent Communist regime...
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  • Miguel Castro Castro prison Aiud Prison, Aiud Gherla Prison, Gherla Pitești Prison, Pitești Butyrka Prison, Moscow Corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia Corrective...
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    Nicolae Mărgineanu (psychologist) (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    ISBN 978-1-58046-579-3. "Nicolae Mărgineanu". www.pitestiprison.org (in Romanian). Pitești Prison Memorial. Retrieved April 19, 2024. Iancu, Mariana (December 8, 2018)...
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    Elisabeta Rizea (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    She was arrested for aiding the partisan group, beaten, and taken to Pitești Prison, where she was held for 18 months before being put on trial, and sentenced...
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    Corneliu Coposu (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    the communist regime, including Sighet Prison, Gherla Prison, Jilava Prison, Râmnicu Sărat Prison, Pitești Prison, and the Danube–Black Sea Canal (where...
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  • out not only through forced labor but also through the method used at Pitești Prison. In 1951, a group of students, veterans of the process, arrived from...
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    A. L. Zissu (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    transported by rail to Pitești, alongside his political adversary Rudich. Both were then dispatched to the infamous Pitești Prison, and were reportedly...
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  • Iuliu Hirțea (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    forced labor for high treason. He was sent to prisons in Oradea, Văcărești, Jilava, Târgu Ocna, Pitești, Satu Mare, Dej, and Gherla, being released in...
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    Gheorghe Mihail (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    he was released that October. Mihail had passed through the prisons at Văcărești, Pitești, Ocnele Mari, Sighet, and Jilava. He settled in Bucharest, where...
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    Radu Ciuceanu (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    Pitești, Gherla, Aiud, Văcărești, and Dej, as well as at the Poarta Albă forced-labor camp on the Danube–Black Sea Canal. While at Pitești Prison, starting...
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    7, 2024. "Nicolae Mărgineanu". www.pitestiprison.org (in Romanian). Pitești Prison Memorial. Retrieved April 19, 2024. "Alexandru Popovici (1874–1961)"...
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    Autonomous Region Re-education through labor Xinjiang internment camps Pitești Prison – the equivalent of the Gulag in the Socialist Republic of Romania Re-education...
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    administered lethal doses of poison. Some of the harshest prisons were those at Aiud, Gherla, Pitești, Râmnicu Sarat, and Sighet, as well as the forced labor...
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    "re-education" to Târgu Ocna. Around 40 tubercular "re-educators", veterans of Pitești Prison, were transferred there with direct orders from Eugen Țurcanu to continue...
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    Aristide Blank (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    Bogdan-Pitești, who had inaugurated a smear campaign against the BMB. According to notes left by Seara's Mateiu Caragiale, Blank "trapped" Bogdan-Pitești with...
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    Valeriu Gafencu (category Inmates of Pitești prison)
    authorities in 1941, he died 11 years later at Târgu Ocna Prison. He was declared "Saint of the Prisons" by theologian Nicolae Steinhardt for his "exemplary...
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    so-called 'Pitești experiment' or Pitești phenomenon, conducted there between 1949 and 1952. The prison in Pitești and the Pitești experiment aimed to 'reeducate'...
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  • hunger weakened detainees’ resistance. In autumn 1950, two veterans of Pitești Prison arrived at Brașov. Armed with orders to repeat the experiment of “re-education”...
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    Danube–Black Sea Canal Re-education Bărăgan deportations Tămădău Affair Pitești prison Sighet prison Protests and resistance 1940s–1950s resistance Bucharest student...
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    Danube–Black Sea Canal Re-education Bărăgan deportations Tămădău Affair Pitești prison Sighet prison Protests and resistance 1940s–1950s resistance Bucharest student...
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