The love and devotion of Doctor Uță in the Alba Iulia prison At the beginning of September 1944, the Romanian and Soviet armies reached Sibiu and Alba Iulia. (…) Accompanied by a wagon full of files and prison documents, we set off for the prison in Alba Iulia. Caught between two fronts, our rescue was safer in prison than in freedom. The irony of fate! We moved slowly.
Doctor Dumitru Uță was one of the saints of communist prisons, a true doctor without money. He was imprisoned in Aiud from ’41 or ’42 until 1964. From ’47 to ’48 he was in Zarca (the building for those who couldn’t be released) until his release. He was a man of deep faith in God and great devotion to his fellow men. God had given him a good face: tall, with blue eyes, a small bald head and a short moustache… After curing the head of the Aiud prison, Major Munteanu, of typhus, he became the most influential voice after […]
Of the 200 deserters from the front who were in Aiud, half had serious leg wounds. Their legs were bleeding. Some had lost their heels, others the flesh on the soles. The administration was no longer in a position to heal them. The brave doctor Dumitru Uță, who had “fallen” just as he was finishing his doctorate in Cluj, was allowed to go to Cluj to treat them. He managed to take two suitcases of medicine with him. Cluj was generous. He began to treat the sick with great passion. I saw some of them myself. He anointed them with […]
In 1948 I was in prison in Aiud. Thanks to favourable circumstances, I was to be released. I had the opportunity to get some of my comrades out of prison by signing some blank papers. Among those I was able to save was Doctor Uță. He was one of the people I respected and admired because he was always ready to sacrifice himself for the good of others. Because of the regime in the prison, where there were thousands of people, many of the prisoners had gone mad, and others were on the verge of going mad. They were all […]
It was 1957 and the end of the decade was approaching, but the problem had not yet been solved. In 1938, a poet from Charaș, Pavel Bellu, in a poem published in the magazine “Tomorrow’s Generation” by the students of the “General Dragalina” gymnasium in Oravița, said: “I return crushed, but undefeated”. That was it, the prisoners of Aiud were crushed after so many years, but they were not defeated.
Another case that can rightly be described as sensational was that of Dr. Uță, the dean of prisoners with the most years of imprisonment. He too had categorically refused re-education, and Colonel Crăciun had a particular hatred for him, considering him, together with Prince Alexandru Ghica, one of the leaders of the legionary resistance in Zarca. Doctor Uță also suffered from a series of illnesses, which had accumulated over more than 20 years in prison. One day, after what must have been a long period of isolation, he collapsed on his bed, fainted and fell into a kind of coma. […]
Veronica Motolea met Dumitru Uță at her uncle’s house, where she was staying on holiday. The war was over and people hoped that life would return to normal. Although he was still in the labour camp, Dumitru also hoped to finish his studies and have a life of his own. Who could have known that the prison would be the beginning of the extermination of those for whom life without God was unthinkable? Their love had to wait twenty years until Dumitru was released and, after recovering from the physical and spiritual suffering of prison, was able to marry the […]
I spent the summer of 1964 in Govora with my mother’s sister, a doctor in the resort. I was studying for the university entrance exam with my cousin. Suddenly we heard the news… Uncle Dumitru had been released from prison. Uncle Dumitru – a name pronounced with reverence in our family, an uncle who had the aura of a saint for us. An uncle for whom we always prayed that God would give him the strength to endure, that we would see him again and that we children would know him. He was in Cluj, admitted to the hospital for […]
After my father died, my mother mourned for 20 years. She prayed a lot for us and for his soul. She loved him very much. In the first year, I noticed that my mother often dreamed about him, talked to my father and made a point of telling me in the morning what he said to her. She wrote down her dreams in a notebook. I felt that Dad was looking after us every day through his dreams. It was a year of revelation for me, through his direct intervention. While he was alive, my father never told me directly […]
In Zarca, the top reactionaries and survivors of the Antonescu government, including several generals, former commanders of large units. Among them: General Pantazi, former Minister of War, General Constantin Constantin, Radu Lecca, Radu Gyr, the writer Constantin Gane, the professor of nuclear physics George Manu, Prince Alexandru Ghica, Nichifor Crainic (…). I have left out Doctor Dumitru Uță, the most popular figure in Aiud prison, because of the sacrifices he made to end the suffering of every prisoner, regardless of political colour or ethnic origin. Doctor Uță had the opportunity to treat the man who had condemned him. (Gabriel Bălănescu […]
