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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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    (including the very first one of Pitești); they were published in London in 1810, with text by a T. Bowyer, whose caption for Pitești read "nothing more wild or...
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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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  • kept at Sighet Prison until May 1949, they were tried in Cluj and then detained mostly at Târgșor, but also at Pitești and Gherla prisons, or sent to perform...
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  • inmates sent to Botoșani Prison. It was at Suceava that the “re-education” experiment began, later exported to places like Pitești and Gherla. The idea appears...
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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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    the lead torturer at Pitești, arrived at Gherla. During the preceding fourteen months, Țanu, his adjunct and rival at Pitești, had won the respect of...
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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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    Bogdan-Pitești share a prison with the convicted collaborationist journalists (Arghezi, Karnabatt, Ioan Slavici). T. Vianu notes that Bogdan-Pitești spent...
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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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    7, 2024. "Nicolae Mărgineanu". www.pitestiprison.org (in Romanian). Pitești Prison Memorial. Retrieved April 19, 2024. "Alexandru Popovici (1874–1961)"...
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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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  • delivered from Aiud, as well as "re-education" student victims from Gherla and Pitești. Categories of detainees included Guardists, other political affiliates...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Aiud Prison is a prison complex in Aiud, Alba County, located in central Transylvania, Romania. It is infamous for the treatment of its political inmates...
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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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    town in Argeș County, Romania, approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) north-east of Pitești. As of 2021[update], it had a population of 29,317. The town administers...
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    But even after this, Brezhnev still criticized Nicolae Ceaușescu’s actions. De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania Conflicted Memories: Europeanizing...
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    kept until May 1949, after which they were tried in Cluj and sent to prisons in Pitești, Gherla, and Târgșor, or to the Danube–Black Sea Canal. On the night...
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    main organizers of the Pitești Experiment. Nowadays, the penitenciary serves as a women's prison. "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și...
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    Ion Barbu (footballer, born 1938) (category FC Argeș Pitești players)
    for Dinamo Obor București. In 1959 he signed with Divizia B club, Argeș Pitești where in his first years he worked with coach Ștefan Vasile, managing to...
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