Lucreția Jurj (en)

“God has given me suffering and pain, but He has also given me the strength to overcome them”

Prom Queen – Out of love for her husband Michael, Lucreția Jurj fled to the mountains with the Apuseni partisans at the age of 21. After eight years of dramatic resistance in the wilds of the forests, the fugitives were betrayed and captured by the Securitate. The love story ended with a single bullet. Lucretia Jurj was born on 2 October 1928 in the village of Scărișoara Noua, Valea lui Mihai, Sălaj County. Her parents, Moors from Scărișoara Apusenilor, settled on the Hungarian border after the land reform of 1921. Many Moorish families were displaced at that time and were […]

“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 […]

Four years of armed resistance in the Apuseni Mountains

…When I say armed resistance, I don’t want the reader to think that I carried this weapon for four years and shot down who knows how many enemies with it. But I have always been close to these weapons through the people I knew who really carried them and were ready to die with them, more precisely with the last shot. But first let me say a few words about myself, so that the reader can get to know me. I come from a peasant family that settled on the Romanian-Hungarian border, in the village of Scărișoara Nouă, a village […]