Nicolae Țoțea (en)

Colonel Manea[1], former President of the Court Martial of the 5th Army Corps – Ploiești, who had also judged our fate and sentenced us to thousands of years, was visited by Nicolae Țoțea, who, after the beatings he had suffered in Bucharest, in Curelea and Oproiu, was left with fits of nervous exhaustion. When he brought him his lunch box, his portion for the day, he asked him: – Do you know me, Colonel Manea? – No…, no…, I don’t know who you are! – I am Nicolae, you sentenced me to death, but after an appeal by the defence […]

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– Father, one day you began to tell us something about the fool who wakes up at night and cries out: “You, me, the one with the trains!… All day you sleep and at night you take the train!…” – Yes! It’s the teacher Toțea, convicted of rebellion by the military tribunal in Ploiești, by a Colonel Manciu[1]. His initial sentence was 8 years, to which was added, for prison activity. The only relatives he had left were a mother and a sister who searched for him in all the prisons he passed through. A peasant leader who knew him […]

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We were taken across the road to the cell in the inside corner of the Section [1]. There are many comrades here. […] The last one is the famous Nicolae Țoțea, who has been in prison for almost two decades. A man who has spent most of his life in prison. When you look at him and think about it, you get the chills! […] Poor Nicolae Țoțea carries his cross on the endless ordeal of his youth. He was a graduate of the Normal School[2] when he was sent to prison in 1941. After a quarter of a century […]

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