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, especially during World War II under the rule of Ion Antonescu, and later under the Communist regime.
AiudPrison is a prison complex in Aiud, Alba County, located in central Transylvania, Romania. It is infamous for the treatment of its political inmates...
that the Aiudprison required inmates to wear khaki uniforms and inmates serving a life sentence wore orange uniforms. As for other prisons, many probably...
to death, albeit his sentence was later commuted to life prison. Maici died at AiudPrison five years later. Born in Craiova, he started Infantry Officer...
imprisonment and hard labour, and died 9 years later in detention at AiudPrison, having been kept in almost complete isolation. After his imprisonment...
back to Aiud, but to the Piteşti prison. Again, with the specter of rehabilitation in sight, they found worse conditions there than at Aiud. "The room...
years of prison for his role in the Grivița Strike of 1933. He spent time at the Aiud, Doftana, Târgu Ocna, Văcărești, and Caransebeș prisons. In 1935–1936...
Iron Guard lost their battle with Antonescu. After spending time at AiudPrison, Gyr was sent to fight on the Eastern Front (a form of punishment which...
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 in...
detention at AiudPrison, where he became strongly religious. Between 1962 and 1964 he collaborated with a "re-education committee" at the prison, and was...
Some prisons in Romania formerly housed political prisoners, both during successive dictatorships of 1938–1944 and during the subsequent Communist regime...
at prisons in Aiud, Galați, Gherla, Jilava, Lugoj, Oradea, Pitești, and Târgșor. Throughout his detention, he was reportedly tortured by the prison guards...
Prison. After a trial, he was sentenced to hard labor for life for high treason, a sentence subsequently reduced to 25 years. He served time at Aiud Prison...
of hard labour. He was imprisoned variously at Jilava, Văcărești, and Aiudprisons before being released early in 1962. Under the recommendation of Perpesiccius...
forced labor, in Gulag-like prisons. He would serve his penalty at Jilava, Gherla, Aiud, and other prisons. While in prison, Steinhardt converted to Orthodox...
imprisonment and hard labor on August 7, 1941. He was sent to prison in Ploiești, and then Aiud, where other Soviet spies, such as Vladimir Gribici and Afanasie...
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...
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 in...
mid-1950, some of the more prominent detainees were sent to Sighet or AiudPrison. A series of significant figures of the Romanian intelligentsia and simple...
order to reduce the incentive of escape. The first detainees came from AiudPrison in September 1950. They were largely intellectuals under 40 years old...
Securitate General Alexandru Nicolschi. Dumitrache was held at Aiud, Jilava, and Văcărești prisons, ultimately being released in October 1950 for lack of evidence...
gulag. Romanian authorities released him in 1964 after seventeen years in prison as party of an amnesty program for political prisoners. Romanian dictator...
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