Victor Isac

"[I was arrested] in 1945. I was a part of the first trial organized by Bolshevik Security.... Communist of Nicolschi’s style. They mixed us with all the political parties only to demonstrate that there was a counterrevolutionary activity against the Regime established by Groza on March 6, 1945. I was sentenced to 5 years of correctional [prison]....The head of the group was Remus Tetu, from the Liberal Party.... There, indeed, they found some kind of germ, a reason to claim that it was an organization, and he was sentenced because he was representing the Liberal Party.... I got five years, representing – it wasn’t about guilt – the National Peasant Party.... Adriana Georgescu, Chief of Staff and collaborator of [Prime Minister] Radescu... got 4 years. After that, the others received sentences of 3 years, 2 years, and a year. Seems that we were a total of 18.…"

"The arrest was here, in this room. It was very hard.... It was...Thursday before Easter. I was waiting.... The church bells were ringing.... My older child, he was about 7 or 8 years, and the younger one... a year and a half.... I was with the younger child in my arms.... Invasion...of the Securitate.... I told them... 'You don’t have reasons to arrest me.' 'We have arrest warrant.' You can imagine it was a dramatic scene. I mean... the child was snatched from my arms, crying, my wife was crying too....The older child came also here in the room: 'Come on, Dad ... what should we do? Are we going to vespers? The bells are ringing....Aren’t we going...?' This was the atmosphere in which I have been arrested. It was extremely painful. I mean that, many of these scenes I cannot... is hard for me to handle."