Elisabeta Rizea (en)

Helping partisans in the mountains and the arrest

Uncle Gheorghe Șuța was shot in 1947. In ’47 he started the feud to scare the peasants. His son, Mr. Iancu, the great captain that Mr. Neluț died in the Trata Mountains… Mr. Tomiță was in the Royal Guard. He was in the army, that is, he was employed there. He went to this school. Well, ma’am, politics threw him out. He didn’t leave him at home either, he had land, he worked. He didn’t let him. He started looking for him. Colonel Arsenescu came from Câmpulung, brought by Mr. Tomiță’s father-in-law, and brought him here, to his house. He […]

How Elisabeta left Domnești and arrived in Nucșoara

I am from Domnești. I come from the family of Șuța. My father’s name was Ion. My mother’s name was Maria. When I was thirty-eight, my father died of a heart attack, leaving eight children. My mother was 36. She was two years younger than my dad. She gave birth to three and a half children. But I don’t know the others who died, I only know the ones who lived: Ion Șuța, Gheorghe Șuța, Petre Șuța, you see, Șuța calls us, Nicolae Șuța and Luca Șuța. The boys. And the girls: Ileana, Maria and Elisabeta, I, they call me […]

It all started with a murder

Look this is why I have done what I have done, lady! That I now stand before the icon and God help me if I lie… He killed my uncle. There it is! They shot him when the communists came. First cousin of my father, parents, brothers. They couldn’t turn him into a communist, so they shot him. Because he was a merchant: he had a mill, a wool machine, a factory, a shop… He had a job, everyone cared about him. He had no children, poor man, and he helped. He helped the poor, the widows of 1916, because […]

When Captain Cârnu tied Elisabeta to the hook in the ceiling

When Cârnu beat me the worst, he took me to a room with the militia. He pulled out a table. There was a big hook in the middle. (…) And Cârnu pulled a chair next to the table, tied my hands behind my back with a rope, like this, then he put the chair on another chair and put the chairs on the table and tied my ponytail up there on the hook. And there was a chain and he put the chain here behind the rope when I was tied at the hands. And I was afraid because I […]