Aspazia Oțel Petrescu (en)

Mrs. Aspazia Oțel-Petrescu is one of the many women who suffered for years in the communist prisons, but who had in their hearts an unfailing love for the country and the nation. During her 14 years of imprisonment, she passed through the prisons of Mislea, Dumbrăveni, Miercurea-Ciuc, Jilava, Botoșani and Arad. With courage and faith in God, she endured the tortures to which she was subjected, and the Almighty Lord cared for her, comforted her and brought her spiritual joy, helping her to overcome critical moments. May her sacrifice, as well as that of all those who are imprisoned for […]

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Born on 9 December (26 November in the old style) in the village of Cotul Ostriței, in the house of his maternal grandparents; the first child (brother – Anatolie) of the teachers Ioan and Maria Oțel. She attends the primary school in the village of Ghizdița (Fântânele). She was enrolled at the secondary school in Bălți, closer to home than Soroca, but was withdrawn after one term due to illness. Between 1936 and 1940 she attended the Elena Doamna Orthodox Girls’ High School in Cernăuți. In the turmoil of 1940 she missed another term. In 1941 she resumed her studies […]

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The trip down memory lane that I’ve been taking quite often lately is a battle with forgetfulness. It is a past that belongs to me and in which I find, sometimes to my amazement, another existence of my own. This past is not a fantasy world, but a painfully real one, from which, when I wake up, I don’t have the bitter taste of defeat, but recapture the atmosphere of that time, reliving moments that are hard to understand for those who didn’t know the evil world built by our oppressors and then transfigured and embellished by us, with our […]

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