“You have to have courage, you have to say no”
Lucreția Jurj, the last female Partizan, has died. Lucreția Jurj was one of the few women who actively participated in the resistance movement in the mountains for four years. Between 1950 and 1954, she fought alongside the Shusman group from Răchițele against the establishment of the communist regime in Romania. After years of harassment by the authorities, she was arrested. In the ambush that preceded her arrest, her husband, Mihai Jurj, was seriously injured. She will never see him again. She was imprisoned in Jilava, Mislea, Miercurea-Ciuc, Cluj and Văcărești, and was released in 1964, suffering from tuberculosis. She lived […]