Dr. Aristide Lefa (en)

I met Dr Lefa Aristide in Tg. Ocna, in full professional activity. Working freely as a surgeon, he was also in great demand by the people on the ward, especially on the ground floor, where most of them had open fistulas of a TB nature and needed more careful care. Personally, I didn’t have much to do with him except when I returned from Tg. Ocna, where I had been operated on for appendicitis, and on the way to the hospital was taken in a smelly cart, my incision had opened despite the surgeon’s stitches. Then he dressed me once […]

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Aristide (Tedi) Lefa was born on 17 February 1923 in Comuna Cârja, Vaslui County, the son of Nicolae, a farmer, and Ana, a housewife. He graduated from the M. Kogălniceanu Theoretical High School in Vaslui (1934-1942), was admitted to the Faculty of Medicine in Iași in 1943, and transferred to Bucharest in 1946, where he was appointed honorary resident in surgery at the Central Military Hospital. During his studies, he joined the Brotherhood of the Cross, an organisation of the Legion, through which he developed socially, morally and as a Christian. In Bucharest, he continued his Legionary training as part […]

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In this room [cell room 1, Târgu Ocna prison n.n.] I met many comrades who had gone through debunkings, as well as my good friend and comrade Lefa Aristide, who had not been there. He had managed to get a job as a doctor at the Pitești clinic, and from there, in the autumn of 1949, he was miraculously taken to the prison sanatorium at Târgu Ocna, along with the tuberculosis patients, for a cold abscess. Lefa, a fifth-year medical student, worked miracles with the tuberculosis patients in Târgu Ocna. The official doctor, fearing the spread of the disease, gave […]

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