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of the Făgăraş Fortress 3 . On this event have attended guests from abroad, representatives
of local authorities and of Negru Voda Cultural Foundation and a large audience:
students, professors and other guests.
The meeting, chaired by Professor Florentin Olteanu - President of the Negru Voda
Cultural Foundation Fagaras, started with the presentation of the event and participants
from Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Moldova and Romania. The Mayor of the Fagaras
City, Constantin Sorin MĂNDUC welcomed the guests with good wishes, a fruitful
activity and a pleasant staying in Fagaras, recommending some unique sights in the area.
Professor Dr. Eng. Elena Helerea made a brief presentation of the project „OPENNESS-
Live Memory for an Open Society”.
The presentation was followed by a brief artistic program supported by the Românaşi
choral group, led by Professor Mioara Marinca.
The Symposium participants’ accommodation was made at the Constantin Brancoveanu
Academy in Sâmbăta de Sus, in the magnificent mountain scenery in which is placed the
famous monastic complex of the Sâmbăta Monastery.
The official opening of the symposium "Communist regimes - Recent Memory for an
Open Society", which took place on the morning of August 2-nd, benefited from the
presence and opening word of the representative partners and organizer institutions: Prof.
Florentin Olteanu, Prof. Dr. Elena Helerea, Dr. Cosmin Budeancă as representative of the
Civil Society Association, Father Michael from the Brancoveanu Academy, Octavian
Bjoza from the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Romania.
The translation was provided by Professor Mariana Streza and by the university lecturer
Dr. Mihaela Popescu.
The papers were held in plenary and on sections, with a complex topic:
I –Communist regimes - Repression and resistance
II –Policies of the communist regimes
III –The memory museums of the communism
IV –United Europe - Memory, Respect and Open.
A total of 37 communications were presented by participants from Romania. The
participants from abroad have made a significant contribution: 5 communications from
Hungary, 5 communications from Bulgaria, 3 communications from Germany, and 4
communications from Moldova.
With interventions and debates attended the guests from the partner institutions of the
project OPENNESS: Negru Voda Cultural Foundation Fagaras, Transilvania University
of Braşov, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the
Romanian Exile, respectively Civil Society Association Museum, Casa Muresenilor -
3 The Fagaras Fortress had a troubled history: Between September 1950 - April 1960 were
imprisoned here over 4000 former employees of the Information Services, State Security and
Gendarmerie, military magistrates and diplomats. Between the walls of the majestic medieval
monument were also imprisoned many citizens of the city, arrested by the Security because they
supported the anticommunist resistance from the mountains and the participation of other forms of
opposition to the country communization. Specific to the Fagaras prison is that most of the
prisoners were considered "lagaristi", meaning imprisoned without trials and no convictions. As a
result of the inhumane conditions of detention, 166 people have died here, belonging to all these
socio-professional categories: generals, officers and NCOs, officers, peasants and workers.