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257:, the inmates were subjected to a "diabolic program of extermination through exhausting work, hunger and physical torture." The youngest inmate to die at Periprava was 19 and the oldest 71. The deaths were due to exhaustion, hunger, cold, and torture; some of the detainees were shot as they attempted to escape the camp. At least 124 prisoners, most of them political ones, are believed to have died in the Periprava labor camp. Marieta Hrabanov, who was with her husband in the camp since 1958, remembers: "Not a day went by without seeing how they took away a man beaten to death. They stripped them to the skin, tied their hands and feet with wire, and threw them like dogs."
203:, 8.23% of political prisoners in Communist Romania did time at Periprava. In the literature on communist prisons and camps in Romania, the Periprava labor camp is described as one of the harshest places of imprisonment. In view of the extremely severe detention and work regime, sheer terror, and high mortality, the camp is known among former detainees as a true "
239:). Exposed to scorching heat and mosquito swarms in the summer and icy winds in the winter, the prisoners lived in brick-walled, 24 m pens that held up to 160 men each. They spent their days cutting reeds and building dams; those who were unable to fulfill the daily quota of 8 thick bundles of reeds were beat unconscious by guards wielding rubber clubs.
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250:, this "was an extermination camp; it was a repressive, excessive, inhuman and discretionary regime." Detainees were overworked, beaten, left without heat, and forced to drink dirty water from the Danube, leading to widespread dysentery. Also according to Muraru, now an adviser to
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866:[Call for the identification of dead political prisoners in Periprava and Tîrgu Ocna. DNA testing from relatives is required at the expense of the state].
896:"Istorie fără perdea. Din 674.875 de oameni intrați pe mîna Securității, un sfert au murit în lagăre, închisori și deportare. De Sîmbăta Morților, să-i pomenim!"
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Formation; it became an independent prison on July 1, 1957. The official designation for the camp was
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777:"Buried In A Casino Wall, A Dark Secret From Romania's Communist Past"
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806:"Historians dig for justice for labour camp prisoners in Romania"
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