Elena Bagdad (en)

Lenuța Bagdad was also a luminous figure in our struggle. She came from the land of Craiova, as did comrade Nicoleta, with whom she was friends. Daughter of a colonel, from an old Romanian family, with the seal of nobility, she gave herself with all her energy to the Movement she loved, supporting comrade Nicoleta. She was a strong and beautiful girl, with her hair tied back in two small buns around her ears. With a figure that expressed health and joy, with a permanent smile that lit up her face and made it even more beautiful. That is how […]

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On 22 September 1939, Elena Bagdad, who had been seriously ill for eight months in the Bârnova tuberculosis sanatorium, was taken from her bed of suffering and taken to the Bârnova – Iași road and executed. There she knelt down and prayed to God. She was told to turn her back. – Why? she asked. – To execute you. She was outraged upon hearing this. – How do you think a legionnaire fears death? Shoot me in the face, through the heart. Shoot and don’t let your hand tremble. But the gendarme’s hand trembled. Five bullets couldn’t take her down. […]

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