Marcel Petrișor (en)

It was towards the end of December 1962, when Colonel Crăciun was preparing the offensive against the political prisoners in Aiud. The winter was hard. I was in cell number 75, (…) with Marcel [Petrișor], Grigore, Dr. Popescu and a painter. A few days later Grigore and Marcel were taken away and put in solitary confinement. They were taken to solitary confinement just before curfew. It was a calculated moment. (…) There was speculation about the state of tension the prisoner was in: “Will he or won’t he take me to solitary confinement tonight?” Grigore and Marcel, who were unhappy, […]

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Cellmates… Among us was a young philosophy student, Marcel Petrișor. He had a great philosophical culture. He had been brought from Jilava, where he had been treated very harshly. Marcel used to give us lectures on philosophy. He had the gift of making himself understood even in difficult matters. He was a good storyteller, but he also listened attentively to Dragon’s demonstrations… . In this way, despite all the rigours of Zarca, time passed relatively easily. *** I remember Marcel Petrișor, whom I met a few years later in the Zarca of Aiud, telling us how he slept with a […]

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