Ion Flueraș (en)

Ion Flueraș – a left-wing activist’s path to God

Son of ploughmen – PSD leader Ion Flueraș was born on 2 November 1882 in Arad, in the commune of Chereluș. His parents, Moise and Maria, were peasants; the Flueraș family’s wealth was represented by the house they lived in and the 2 hectares of land that ensured their existence. Ion Flueraș attended the primary school in his native community, showing great qualities and an inclination to study. Unfortunately, his parents did not have the means to send him to school, so the young man was sent to a wheelwright in Pancota to learn the trade. When he finished his […]

From the many sufferings of the martyr Ion Flueraș

In every memoirist there burns a spirit of exactitude born of an irrepressible need to tell the truth, and only the truth, about the inhuman conditions in which the General Directorate of Prisons decided to contribute to hastening the deaths of those entrusted to its care. None of those who went to freedom, leaving behind a few Bolshevik guerrillas, will ever get used to the misery they had to endure and will always wonder that a man was found to subject them to it and that they themselves had the strength to endure it. He may be forgiven, therefore, for […]

Ion Flueraș – an atheist who won and confessed Christ in prison

Old Flueraș, a carpenter from Arad, former member of the Socialist International Committee and former secretary of Titel Petrescu’s Social Democratic Party, did not join the Communist Party with Lothar Rădăceanu (Wurtzelbaum), but remained faithful to Titel Petrescu’s Social Democratic Party. Arrested with the latter, he behaved like an honest man of great common sense. I met him in Gherla under the following circumstances:

Ion Flueraș or the mockery of a pillar of Romanian unity

… The famous social democrat Ion Fluieraș, one of the founders of the Alba Iulia Unity, now an old man, unable to work, Reck took him to the factory yard to clean there and gave him the bogs as a task. I heard him comment with satisfaction: – Leave him alone, he’s been a servant of the bourgeoisie all his life, now he’s cleaning the toliets. But the mockery was not enough.

“If you don’t release the Legionaries, take me back. I won’t make the deal”

I was in Gherla prison. One day – after the alarm had gone off – a single person was taken to a room on the ground floor. The cells to the right and left were emptied. The cell on the next floor was also emptied. The lockdown was total. It was not possible to make Morse code contact with prisoners in neighbouring cells. I was working in the paint shop at the time. In order to meet my standard when painting some parts, I made a small innovation. I made a kind of tile out of a pressed pig’s hair […]

Flueraș, a simple man of good faith

In Gherla, the news spread that the students had been ‘restructured’ and that everyone was running away from them. But the re-education took its course. Workers began to be tortured. One of those murdered under terrible tortures was the founder of socialism in Romania, Flueraș, an old and good man who strongly denounced the communist monstrosity. Many socialists have been in prison and many have died there, but the most tragic fate was that of this Flueraș, a simple man of no faith who only understood Marxism through re-education. He died a victim of an ideology that he had understood […]

Ion Flueraș – a man of great dignity and purity

I had learnt about Ion Flueraș, that he had also been schooled by Rek and Juberian, I had learnt that he had died, that he had also undergone re-education. This man was of a dignity and purity that one rarely encounters, I sat with him twice. Flueraș was the secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, of the Title Petrescu faction. I witnessed a confrontation between Ion Flueraș and the two secretaries, Captain Gheorghiu, the prison director, and Lieutenant Avădanei from the Gherla prison. Poor Flueraș was about 70 years old, he was sick, I took care of him because […]