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Regimul de exterminare la Aiud: înfometarea
The Exterminating Regime in Aiud: Starvation

Author(s): Nae Tudorică, loan Gh. Mitucă, Constantin Cesianu, Teohar Mihadaș, Nistor Chioreanu, Constantin Lățea, Ion Ioanid, Ion M. Ionescu, Nicholas Dima
Subject(s): Oral history, Political history, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Penal Policy
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Romania; 40s; 50s; testimonies; prison camps;

Summary/Abstract: The authors are former political prisoners. Covering the period 1949-1956, the testimonies describe the daily food in Aiud, one ofthe extermination centres set up by the Communist regime. The prisoners' weight decreased to 19 pounds in less than four months. The estimated daily nutritive value did not exceed 1000 calories.

  • Issue Year: I/1993
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-125
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian