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50 Years
since the Trial and the Execution of Members of the Anti-Communist Partisan Group
Led by Toma Arnăuţoiu

Album of photographs and documents
from the archive of National Council for the Study of the Securitate (CNSAS)

Editie ingrijita de Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnăuţoiu si Ioan Craciun
Fotografii realizate cu ajutorul Editurii Ars docendi

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Album of photographs and documents from the archive of National Council for the Study of the Securitate (CNSAS).
The house in Nucsoara which belonged to the Arnautoiu family, converted in 1949 into a police station.
Toma Arnautoiu at the King Ferdinand Cavalry School in Targoviste.
Petre Arnautoiu before becoming a partisan.
Maria Plop before joining the partisans.
Titu Jubleanu a member of the initial group of partisans. He was detained in 1951, given a 25 years prison sentence, only to be retried in 1958 and executed in Jilava on 18/19 July 1959.
Maria Jubleanu, Titu Jubleanu's wife fatally shot in a clash with Securitate troops.
Ion Marinescu, a trigger-happy member of the group who became a security risk for his companions.
Eugen Popescu, son-in-law of Titu Jubleanu who helped the partisans. He was arrested in 1958 and given a seven year prison sentence.
Hiding places for food and munition were build in the woodland.
One of the hiding places in the forest.
Hide-out used by Toma and Petre Arnautoiu and Maria Plop.
Photograph taken soon after the hurried departure of the partisans.
Hide-out used by the Jubleanu family before their encounter with Securitate troops.
Same hide-out of the Jubleanus.
A hide-out used by Constantin Jubleanu (Titu Jubleanu's son) and Ion Marinescu.
Felled trees near the hide-out used by Constantin Jubleanu and Ion Marinescu.
Hiding place for food.
Portraits of the Workers (Communist) Party leaders at a lumber station ripped off by the partisans.
Slab covering the place where the partizans hid their writings.
Various notes were kept in clay pots.
Clay pot used for notes and writings.
Letter sent in 1949 by Toma Arnautoiu to the chairman of the Provisional Council in Nucsoara.
Letter sent in 1949 by Toma Arnautoiu to the chairman of the Provisional Council in Nucsoara.
Notes kept by the partizans in various hidding places I.
Notes kept by the partizans in various hidding places II.
Typed copy of a manifesto directed at the police disseminated by the partisans.
Typed copy of a manifesto directed at the police disseminated by the partisans.
Manifesto targeting soldiers.
Typed copy of a manifesto targeting soldiers.
Hand-written receipt showing the foodstuff and items removed from the Oticu lumber station. Signed "The Partisans of Liberty", these receipts were meant to protect the staff from suspicions that they had appopriated food etc.
Hand-written receipt left by the partisans showing the foodstuff and items removed from the Berevoiu lumber station.
Note written by one of the partisans describing a clash with Securitate troops on (on Mt. Galasescu).
Note written by one of the partisans describing the same encounter.
A poem describing a partisan's lonelines but also his thirst for freedom.
A manifesto calling on the country's new masters to recant.
A 1957 poem called "Dear mother". The author longs to see again his imprisoned mother but is proud to be able to speak out for his country.
Two poems written by a partisan, one dated April 1957.
The partisans' hideout between 1952 and 1958.
Entrance to the hide-out photographed by the Securitate in 1958 after the partisans' capture.
The Poienarei hamlet where the Arnautoiu brothers were captured on 20 May 1958.
A Securitate officers climbing the partisans' rope ladder after their capture.
Maria Plop holding her child coming down the rope ladder after the capture of the Arnautoiu brothers.
The body of Constantin Jubleanu who refused to surrender being lowered down the ladder.
The hideout's door imitating rock.
The ladder used by the partisans in their hide-out at Rapele cu brazi.
Weapons and ammunition found at the Rapele cu brazi hide-out.
Radio set, binoculars and newspapers dating from 1956 events in Hungary found at their last hideout.
Various items found by the Securitate at the Rapele cu brazi hide-out.
Clothing used by the partisans at the Rapele cu brazi hide-out.
Toma Arnautoiu photographed in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).
Petre Arnautoiu photographed in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).
Maria Plop and her two years old daughter in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).
Ioana, the daughter of Maria Plop and Toma Arnautoiu in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).
Fr. Ioan Constantinescu, Poienarei parish priest, executed on 19 July 1959.
Fr. Nicolae Andreescu, Nucsoara parish priest, executed on 19 July 1959.
Primary school teacher Alexandru Moldoveanu, executed on 19 July 1959.
Primary school teacher Ion Mica, executed on 19 July 1959.
Prison record of Toma Arnautoiu I - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.
Prison record of Toma Arnautoiu II - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.
Prison record of Petre Arnautoiu I - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.
Prison record of Petre Arnautoiu II - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.
Prison record of Maria Plop I - It shows she was sentenced to life imprisonement by a military court and registers her death in the Miercurea Ciuc penitenciary on 31 January 1962.
Prison record of Maria Plop II - It shows she was sentenced to life imprisonement by a military court and registers her death in the Miercurea Ciuc penitenciary on 31 January 1962.
Prison record of Laurentia Arnautoiu I - It shows she had already carried out a six years' imprisonment sentence (5 July 1949 to 5 July 1955).
Prison record of Laurentia Arnautoiu II - It shows she had already carried out a six years' imprisonment sentence (5 July 1949 to 5 July 1955); that she was sentenced again in 1960 to ten years' imprisonment and that she died in the Miercurea Ciuc penitenciary on 24 May 1962.
One of Alexandru Moldoveanu’s interrogation minutes. It shows he had been a member of the Liberal Party and had been highly decorated during the Second World War.
One of Alexandru Moldoveanu’s interrogation minutes - It shows he had been a member of the Liberal Party and had been highly decorated during the Second World War.
Last photograph of Toma Arnautoiu before his execution.
Toma Arnautoiu

VIRTUAL EXPO

Album of photographs and documents from the archive of National Council for the Study of the Securitate (CNSAS).

The house in Nucsoara which belonged to the Arnautoiu family, converted in 1949 into a police station.

Toma Arnautoiu at the King Ferdinand Cavalry School in Targoviste.

Petre Arnautoiu before becoming a partisan.

Maria Plop before joining the partisans.

Titu Jubleanu a member of the initial group of partisans. He was detained in 1951, given a 25 years prison sentence, only to be retried in 1958 and executed in Jilava on 18/19 July 1959.

Maria Jubleanu, Titu Jubleanu's wife fatally shot in a clash with Securitate troops.

Ion Marinescu, a trigger-happy member of the group who became a security risk for his companions.

Eugen Popescu, son-in-law of Titu Jubleanu who helped the partisans. He was arrested in 1958 and given a seven year prison sentence.

Hiding places for food and munition were build in the woodland.

One of the hiding places in the forest.

Hide-out used by Toma and Petre Arnautoiu and Maria Plop.

Photograph taken soon after the hurried departure of the partisans.

Hide-out used by the Jubleanu family before their encounter with Securitate troops.

Same hide-out of the Jubleanus.

A hide-out used by Constantin Jubleanu (Titu Jubleanu's son) and Ion Marinescu.

Felled trees near the hide-out used by Constantin Jubleanu and Ion Marinescu.

Hiding place for food.

Portraits of the Workers (Communist) Party leaders at a lumber station ripped off by the partisans.

Slab covering the place where the partizans hid their writings.

Various notes were kept in clay pots.

Clay pot used for notes and writings.

Letter sent in 1949 by Toma Arnautoiu to the chairman of the Provisional Council in Nucsoara.

Letter sent in 1949 by Toma Arnautoiu to the chairman of the Provisional Council in Nucsoara.

Notes kept by the partizans in various hidding places I.

Notes kept by the partizans in various hidding places II.

Typed copy of a manifesto directed at the police disseminated by the partisans.

Typed copy of a manifesto directed at the police disseminated by the partisans.

Manifesto targeting soldiers.

Typed copy of a manifesto targeting soldiers.

Hand-written receipt showing the foodstuff and items removed from the Oticu lumber station. Signed "The Partisans of Liberty", these receipts were meant to protect the staff from suspicions that they had appopriated food etc.

Hand-written receipt left by the partisans showing the foodstuff and items removed from the Berevoiu lumber station.

Note written by one of the partisans describing a clash with Securitate troops on (on Mt. Galasescu).

Note written by one of the partisans describing the same encounter.

A poem describing a partisan's lonelines but also his thirst for freedom.

A manifesto calling on the country's new masters to recant.

A 1957 poem called "Dear mother". The author longs to see again his imprisoned mother but is proud to be able to speak out for his country.

Two poems written by a partisan, one dated April 1957.

The partisans' hideout between 1952 and 1958.

Entrance to the hide-out photographed by the Securitate in 1958 after the partisans' capture.

The Poienarei hamlet where the Arnautoiu brothers were captured on 20 May 1958.

A Securitate officers climbing the partisans' rope ladder after their capture.

Maria Plop holding her child coming down the rope ladder after the capture of the Arnautoiu brothers.

The body of Constantin Jubleanu who refused to surrender being lowered down the ladder.

The hideout's door imitating rock.

The ladder used by the partisans in their hide-out at Rapele cu brazi.

Weapons and ammunition found at the Rapele cu brazi hide-out.

Radio set, binoculars and newspapers dating from 1956 events in Hungary found at their last hideout.

Various items found by the Securitate at the Rapele cu brazi hide-out.

Clothing used by the partisans at the Rapele cu brazi hide-out.

Toma Arnautoiu photographed in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).

Petre Arnautoiu photographed in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).

Maria Plop and her two years old daughter in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).

Ioana, the daughter of Maria Plop and Toma Arnautoiu in the Pitesti prison (May 1958).

Fr. Ioan Constantinescu, Poienarei parish priest, executed on 19 July 1959.

Fr. Nicolae Andreescu, Nucsoara parish priest, executed on 19 July 1959.

Primary school teacher Alexandru Moldoveanu, executed on 19 July 1959.

Primary school teacher Ion Mica, executed on 19 July 1959.

Prison record of Toma Arnautoiu I - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.

Prison record of Toma Arnautoiu II - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.

Prison record of Petre Arnautoiu I - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.

Prison record of Petre Arnautoiu II - It shows he was sentenced to death by a military court and registers his execution on 18 July 1959.

Prison record of Maria Plop I - It shows she was sentenced to life imprisonement by a military court and registers her death in the Miercurea Ciuc penitenciary on 31 January 1962.

Prison record of Maria Plop II - It shows she was sentenced to life imprisonement by a military court and registers her death in the Miercurea Ciuc penitenciary on 31 January 1962.

Prison record of Laurentia Arnautoiu I - It shows she had already carried out a six years' imprisonment sentence (5 July 1949 to 5 July 1955).

Prison record of Laurentia Arnautoiu II - It shows she had already carried out a six years' imprisonment sentence (5 July 1949 to 5 July 1955); that she was sentenced again in 1960 to ten years' imprisonment and that she died in the Miercurea Ciuc penitenciary on 24 May 1962.

One of Alexandru Moldoveanu’s interrogation minutes. It shows he had been a member of the Liberal Party and had been highly decorated during the Second World War.

One of Alexandru Moldoveanu’s interrogation minutes - It shows he had been a member of the Liberal Party and had been highly decorated during the Second World War.

Last photograph of Toma Arnautoiu before his execution.

Toma Arnautoiu