Fr. Gheorghe Tarcea (en)

How many years have you lived in Bărăgan? – Three years. I worked in the rice mill and on the state farms. – In which years were you forced to live there? – Between 1956 and 1958. We were all in a village abandoned by the Bărăgan. We were all ex-convicts who had been released from prison. They didn’t let any of us go home, but sent us to work under guard on a state farm. It was a very powerful state farm, plus the rice mill. It had several thousand acres. It was in Bărăgan, near the Giurgeni bridge, […]

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Priest Gheorghe Tarcea was born into a peasant family from the Ardeleni region of Sibiu. He attended primary school in his home town and secondary school, high school and university in Sibiu. He was mobilised and took part in the First World War. After the war, he settled in Hunedoara, where he married and had 4 children. He worked as a teacher in Hunedoara and was an Orthodox priest, serving in various parishes under the Hunedoara deanery. He was arrested several times without being convicted. From 1945 he was arrested and interned in various forced labour camps or forced to […]

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Father Tarcea died in prison in Aiud in 1963. He was over 70 years old. He had come to the Bărăgan ten years before, I think from Hunedoara, where he was a priest and had become troublesome with his industrious presence in the city of steel. Here, in the new village, he did a good work. When the authorities took pity and allowed the people of Banat to build their church, giving them a deadline – two days – then the priest and the Orthodox Christians hastily erected a kind of shed, two metres high, ten metres long and four […]

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