Wapniarka – o republică totalitară în miniatură (1941-1944), cu o introducere de Veronica ROZENBERG
Wapniarka – A Miniature Totalitarian Republic (1941-1944), forward by Veronica ROZENBERG

Summary/Abstract: This text includes Adalbert Rosinger’s testimony. He was an anti-fascist militant who was interned in the camps of Targu Jiu and Wapniarka during World War II. In this detailed and analytic autobiographical note, Rosinger provides valuable information about living conditions in the two camps where many anti-fascist activists and communist illegals were detained. The main idea of Rosinger’s analysis is that the way in which the “Collective” operated – the informal leadership body established in the two camps by an “elite” of activists, an oligarchy that enjoyed various privileges that made the difference between life and death when in detention – foreshadowed the dictatorial deviation and corruption of the communist regime. Rosinger evokes a series of important characters of the early communist movement and draws portraits that help better understand those times. The foreword of the testimony is written by Veronica Rozenberg, Adalbert Rosinger’s daughter, who explains the circumstances in which it was written and provides details about her father’s destiny during the Communist era, when he was sentenced in one of the show trials staged by the regime against officials who worked in foreign trade.

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