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Memorialul Durerii #2 (Sighetu Marmatiei) Traditional Cache

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This cache is part from "Remembering our past / Memorialul Durerii" series. See also GC1TG58.

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[Ro]
"Cei care nu pot învata din istorie sunt condamnati sa o repete."
G. Santayana

Pentru cei care nu stiu, au uitat sau pentru cei care vor sa-si aminteasca.... un loc trist, apasator ... care te ajuta sa zambesti cand te gandesti la problemele noastre de acum.

Descriere:
"În 1950, Închisoarea din Sighet - construita în 1897 - îsi capata tristul renume de Închisoare a Ministrilor. Într-o singura noapte (5/6 mai) au fost încarcerati aici peste 100 de demnitari din întreaga tara (fosti ministri, academicieni, economisti, militari, istorici, ziaristi, politicieni), unii condamnati la pedepse grele, altii nici macar judecati.
În toamna aceluiasi an, în penitenciarul situat la doi kilometri de frontiera cu Uniunea Sovietica au fost închisi 50 de prelati (preoti de rit greco-catolic si romano-catolic). Cinci ani mai târziu, în urma aderarii tarii la Conventia de la Geneva, o parte dintre detinuti au fost eliberati, iar altii au fost transferati în alte penitenciare. Bilantul a fost dramatic - peste 50 de detinuti politici si-au gasit sfârsitul în celule sighetene.
Fundatia Academica Civica a considerat necesar ca în celulele mânjite cu sânge ale Penitenciarului de la Sighet (cladire dezafectata în 1977) sa intenteze un tacut proces, în care juratii (vizitatorii) sa judece si sa condamne faptele tortionarilor. În 1995, fosta ruina a închisorii este preluata de Fundatie si transformata într-un dureros Memorial al Victimelor Comunismului si al Rezistentei. Au fost adunate fotografii, acte, obiecte, scrisori, colectii de ziare, carti, manuale… S-au organizat ateliere, seminarii, simpozioane, întâlniri cu victimele comunismului, au fost publicate carti cuprinzând marturii, studii, statistici privind rezistenta anticomunista si reprimarea ei." (preluare wikipedia)
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[En]
"Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
G. Santayana

This museum it's sad and sometimes terrifying. However, it's a good place to find out or to remember our past. Once you go there you realize that the problems we have now are just a simple smile.

Description:
"The prison in Sighetu Marmatiei (often referred to just as "Sighet") was built in 1897, when the area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as a prison for criminal offenders.
After 1945, at the end of World War II, the repatriation of Romanians who had been prisoners of war and deportees in the Soviet Union was done through Sighet.
In August 1948, once communist power had been consolidated in Romania, Sighet prison was reserved for political opponents of the regime. At first, it held a group of students, pupils and peasants from the Maramures region. Many of the surviving prisoners are still living in Sighet to this very day.
On May 5 and 6, 1950, over one hundred former dignitaries from the whole country were brought to the Sighet penitentiary (former ministers and other politicians, as well as academics, economists, military officers, historians, and journalists), some of them sentenced to heavy punishments, and others held without any form of trial. The majority were over 60 years old. Many important figures of inter-war Romania died in custody, including the leader of the National Peasants' Party and former Prime Minister of Romania, Iuliu Maniu." (from Wikipedia)
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