Aurel Pandurescu (en)

Aurel Pandurescu, a theology student who was also arrested during Antonescu’s reign, was beaten in an unimaginable way. His whole body, his hands, his legs, his face and everything you could see was covered with marks. He began to be trampled. He couldn’t stand it any longer and shit himself. On the pretext of making the room dirty, he was forced to eat his own excrements. Then he was made to sit on one leg with his hands up for 24 hours. A re-educated man was assigned to supervise him, not to change his legs and to stand with his […]

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One day, when Zachariah returned from Turcanu, he began his ritual as usual with the musical hymn that announced the impending torture. This time he brought with him a new method that required both physical fitness and long training. Here is the procedure. The tortured person was stripped naked and had his shoes taken off. Note that it was winter and the room was cold. Clothes, underwear and shoes were tied together in the shirt and the boot had to be made to fit on the head. The torturer had to climb onto the rack of necessaries. With the boot […]

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Aurel Pandurescu was a legionnaire and had served many years in prison. I think he was a teacher. He composed poems, mostly ballads, all with nationalist themes or heroes from Romanian folk tales and legends. He was gifted with an extraordinary ease of versification. He was also very prolific and everything he composed, he first wrote with a needle on soap, then memorised and finally erased the soap. He knew hundreds and hundreds of verses by heart and kept this store in his memory, repeating everything every day, either in his mind or out loud when he had an amateur […]

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