Name: George DirnuBorn: 195xBirth Place: RomaniaOvercome story: After being demoted on flimsy pretexts he had enough. George swam the Danube river to make it to freedom in America. His confidence is not in a country or a Government but in God.Interview: Sept. 2024 Breathing Free… Read More »Geroge Dirnu – Free under the “Stars and Sky”
Brought up as a pastor’s daughter Elisabeth was no stranger to persecutions and discriminations against protestant christians. Still, she had to learn for herself to not be afraid. She had to live with her “shadow” (security operative) watching her and her family all the time,… Read More »Elisabeth Ton
Saved from being a “chaibur” (rich peasant part of the privileged bourgeoisie) by a epic flood, Iosif moved to the city, next to his future wife, and graduated from college with a degree in philology. Later he got the opportunity to study theology in Oxford… Read More »Iosif Ton
Iosif Sarac refused to bend. They transferred him, harassed him, watched him. Finally, they exiled him. Yet his courage gave Christian churches a taste of freedom. In 1973, Iosif and three other pastors launched a bold plan. They gathered signatures across Romania. Additionally, fifty pastors… Read More »Iosif Sarac – “I lost my fear of death!”
Honoring the victims and survivors by learning from the victims of the other Holocaust.
Francisc was ten years old when his father, a reformed priest, was deported to Dobrogea. What followed were six years of extreme poverty, uncertainty, and joy. Yes, joy; joy in the middle of the suffering. About his time in the poverty-ridden village in Dobrogea, Francisc… Read More »Francisc Visky
Daniel remembers exactly where he was when he turned fourteen. He was in Austria, in a refugee camp. A kind lady gave him a box of chocolates for his birthday as she wrote his name and birthday on the immigration forms. His is a coming-of-age… Read More »Daniel Tet
George Bocșan is today a happy man. His wife and grandchildren are around the house, the Mercedes convertible parked in the driveway. But once upon a time, he crawled in the mud, was beaten to a pulp, and was thrown in jail for five months… Read More »George Bocsan
In July 2022, Viorel (Vio) Munteanu is an electrician and a tour guide. He showed us the amazing city of Brasov, Romania. Born in 1948, he tells his all too common experience with the Communist/Socialist (C/S) regime in Romania. A subtle, and persistent threat, with… Read More »Viorel Munteanu