Dan Mihăilescu (en)

Martyred “in unspeakable torments”… for singing a traditional song

Dan Mihailescu, 30 years old, in prison for 5 years, engineer, sick with bacillary meningitis – relapse. He had fallen ill in the summer of that year[1] in Gherla, where he had received appropriate treatment. His fever and pain had subsided and he was on the road to recovery. Before his treatment was completed, however, he was transferred to Aiud, where he was placed in an ordinary cell under a cell regime, despite the fact that he was said to be suffering from bacillary meningitis. As expected, the disease relapsed and he was taken to hospital on a stretcher, in […]

Dan Mihăilescu – a martyr of the communist prisons

It was November 1951. After the end of the investigation I arrived in Jilava and here in cell no. 12, the first on the left in the 2nd “secret” section. Here I met Dănuț Mihăilescu. Since I was the only one of my group in this cell – as usual, before the trial, the members of a group were scattered, each in a different cell – and since I was still stunned and frightened by the investigation (barely a month had passed since my arrest), Dan’s warmth of heart, his sensitivity and delicacy, and perhaps above all his extraordinary kindness, […]

Dan Mihăilescu – a young martyr who shone in virtues

The shocking end, in madness, of the doctor Costin Cazacu was joined in my conscience by another tragic end, also in Aiud, on 15 February 1956: that of my friend Dan Mihail N. Mihăilescu, an outstanding graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, former honorary prize-winner of the “Spiru Haret” High School – Bucharest, in his sixth year of imprisonment after having been sentenced to 20 years of hard labour for “the crime of conspiracy against the social order”, the order of communism, which destroys human values. Shortly after my release from prison – Iași, 26 December 1955 – on the […]