VIRGIL GHEORGHIU’S WAR NOTES REFLECTED IN SECURITATE DOCUMENTS
VIRGIL GHEORGHIU’S WAR NOTES REFLECTED IN SECURITATE DOCUMENTS

Summary/Abstract: Using unpublished information from Securitate Archive (where there are kept six dossiers on Virgil Gheorghiu’s name, all of them containing information regarding his family, life activity, preferences, friends, his relationship with the Romanian Orthodox Church and its head, Patriarch Justinian Marina and other relevant aspects that could be used in a certain moment to convince him to cooperate with Bucharest regime), this research brings into attention Virgil Gheorghiu’s war notes, published during the Second World War in the books: The banks of Dniester are burning, I fought in Crimeea and With the submarine at the siege of Sevastopol (containing his impressions from the battlefield, interviews or descriptions of certain episodes lived by him), that will also influence his life in Paris and the one as a writer in Romanian French diaspora. Fragments of those books, chosen by Virgil Ierunca, translated into French language and cutted out from the context will make Gabriel Marcel (who foreworded his masterpiece, The 25th Hour) and all his friends and supporters to consider him as a Nazist and an anti-Semite (nobody took into attention at that time the fact that he married a Jew lady). Noticing the impact of this book in the French space, we have tried to see there how they were seen by Securitate Agents and if they can be found in their information reports.

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