Interview with IULIA MERSOIU Iulia Mersoiu is my mother, she is 62 and more than 40 of them were spent working as a surgery and internal medicine nurse at the Prahova County Hospital in Ploiesti. She was assigned to work in Ploiesti in 1974 and rented a flat until she contracted a housing mortgage in 1978. First of all, please tell me when and how did you come to Ploiesti? I did my nursing studies in Ploiesti between 1972 and 1974, coming from Ramnicu Sarat, Buzau County. I was assigned by the state to work in the city after nursing…
Workshop language: English, with some (consecutive) Romanian translation Participants: Activists and members of self-organized collectives from Romania, Germany, UK, France Program summary Saturday, the 9th of May 11:00-17.00 Educational Centre Replika Part one: the different participants/ groups give short presentations of their activities, topics, history and “utopias” Part two: working in three thematic discussion groups, in parallel. Our proposed topics (you are welcome to propose others) are: 1) how to take action in the fields of education and social work? Considering the context of the EU, national states, NGOs and political activism 2) EU-funds vs. grassroots financing: How to finance…
By Ioana Florea, Isabela Panek, Jelena Steigerwald Between 1937 and 1945, more than 250.000 people from all over Europe, including Northern Transylvania, were imprisoned by the Nazi regime in Buchenwald concentration camp and its adjacent camps. Testimonies from this period were given by survivors in interviews taken in 1998, 2002, 2005 and during a discussion between Miklós/Nicolae Kallós, Ladislau/Vasile Nuszbaum, László Székely, the activists from “Third Generation Buchenwald” and researchers from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which took place in Cluj in October 2014. We thank Andrea Julika Ghiță for facilitating this discussion. Most of the Romanian prisoners from Buchenwald…
Testimonies by LIVIU BERIS and ALEXANDRU ELIAS This material is the transcript of a discussion with Holocaust survivors Liviu Beris and Alexandru Elias during the conference/workshop Nationalism, Fascism and the Holocaust in Romanian History – A Critical Approach, organized by Third Generation Buchenwald during October 16-20 in Bucharest. Liviu Beris was evicted from Herta, his hometown, at the age of 13 and deported to Moghilev concentration camp in Transnistria/Pridnestrovie. Today he is the president of the Association of Romanian Jews Victims of the Holocaust. Alexandru Elias was deported to Tirgu-Jiu labor camp in 1942, at the age of 16, for…
by Zaharia Stancu Zaharia Stancu was one of the most radical left-wing opponents of the fascist dictatorship in Romania. Ever since he became a journalist, in 1934, he militated against the political terror the country would experience in the 1940s. He was arrested and interned in Târgu-Jiu internment camp during the winter of 1942-1943: “I became prisoner nr. 3912, who was ‘responsible for spreading alarming news with the criminal intent to undermine citizens’ morale.’” His book, Prison Days [Zile de lagăr] was published for the first time in 1945. Prison Days documents the time spent in the camp, the oppressive…
