Pitesti

According to the DNSC, 25 hospitals were affected by the attack, starting with the The Pitesti Paediatric Hospital.

We left the capital midweek, driving west on the modern main highway through Pitesti — then veering north to Curtea de Arges, on the threshold of Transylvania.

Among the detainees that survived Pitesti are Romanian Orthodox priest Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa who spent 21 years as a political prisoner and Corneliu Coposu, an anti-communist politician and well-known dissident who died in 1995.

Several thousand prisoners who had fallen foul of the communist regime underwent what was known as “The Pitesti Experiment.”

Several thousand prisoners who had fallen afoul of the communist regime underwent what was known as “The Pitesti Experiment.”