Aiud prison
Encyclopedia
Aiud prison is a prison complex in Aiud
, central Transylvania
, Romania
.
It is infamous for its political inmates, especially during the reign of Romania's by Nazi allies and later communists
. It is said to have been built in the 19th century.
Aiud
Aiud is a city located in Alba county, Transylvania, Romania. The city has a population of 28,934 people. It has the status of municipality and is the second-largest city in the county, after county seat Alba Iulia. The Aiud administrative region is 142.2 square kilometres in area.- Administration...
, central Transylvania
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
.
It is infamous for its political inmates, especially during the reign of Romania's by Nazi allies and later communists
Communist Romania
Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...
. It is said to have been built in the 19th century.
Notable inmates
- Aurel AldeaAurel AldeaAurel Aldea was a Romanian general and anti-communist resistance leader.-Biography :Born in Slatina in 1887, he served briefly as Minister of the Interior in the Constantin Sănătescu government of Romania....
- Bartolomeu AnaniaBartolomeu AnaniaBartolomeu Anania, was a Romanian Orthodox bishop, translator, writer and poet; he was the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba, Crişana and Maramureş.-Early life:...
- Emil CalmanoviciEmil CalmanoviciEmil Calmanovici was a Romanian engineer, businessman, and communist militant. Known for the financial support he gave to the Romanian Communist Party during the late 1930s and early 1940s, he became a political prisoner of the Communist regime after being implicated in the show trial of his...
- Ion CârjaIon CârjaIon Cârja was a Romanian and American writer and anti-communist activist, who was a political prisoner in Communist Romania.-Biography:...
- Nichifor CrainicNichifor CrainicNichifor Crainic was a Romanian writer, editor, philosopher, poet and theologian famed for his traditionalist and antisemitic activities...
- Radu FilipescuRadu FilipescuRadu Filipescu is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident. He is the youngest son of Zorel Filipescu and Carmelita-Ileana Filipescu. His elder brother is Doru Filipescu, a well known orthopedic surgeon on Sf. Ioan Hospital, in Bucharest...
- Pan HalippaPan HalippaPantelimon "Pan" Halippa was a Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician. One of the most important promoters of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and of this province's union with Romania, he was president of Sfatul Ţării, which voted union in 1918...
- Vasile LucaVasile LucaVasile Luca was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party from 1945 and until his imprisonment in the 1950s...
- Istrate MicescuIstrate MicescuIstrate Micescu was a Romanian lawyer and Law and Political Science professor at the University of Law in Bucharest and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania...
- Alexandru NicolschiAlexandru NicolschiAlexandru Nicolschi was a Romanian communist activist, Soviet agent and officer, and Securitate chief under the Communist regime...
- Constantin PetrovicescuConstantin PetrovicescuConstantin Petrovicescu was a Romanian soldier and politician, who served as Interior Minister from September 14, 1940 to January 21, 1941 during the National Legionary State. A sympathizer and secret member of the fascist Iron Guard movement, he was also the royal commissioner involved in the...
- Dumitru StăniloaeDumitru StaniloaeDumitru Stăniloae was a Romanian Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian, academic, and professor. Father Stăniloae worked for over 45 years on a comprehensive Romanian translation of the Philokalia, a collection of writings by the Church Fathers, together with the hieromonk, Arsenie Boca, who brought...
- Nicolae SteinhardtNicolae SteinhardtNicolae Steinhardt was a Romanian writer, Orthodox hermit and father confessor.-Early life:...
- Constant TonegaruConstant TonegaruConstant Tonegaru was a Romanian avant-garde and Decadent poet, who ended his career as a political prisoner and victim of the communist regime...
- Petre ŢuţeaPetre Tutea- Early years: from Marxism to the Legionary Movement :Petre Ţuţea was born in the village of Boteni, Muscel region . His father, Petre Bădescu, was a Romanian Orthodox priest and his mother, Ana Ţuţea, was of peasant stock. After the First World War, Ţuţea left his village to finish high school in...
- Mircea VulcănescuMircea VulcanescuMircea Vulcănescu was a prominent Romanian philosopher, economist, ethics teacher and sociologist.-Biography:He studied philosophy and law at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1925...