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" ................... Site Index Synopsis Introduction Index of People Index by Profession Extracts From The Book: Princess Marthe Bibesco Ana Blandiana Smaranda Braescu Madelene “Madi” Cancicov Nina Cassian Elena Ceausescu Ioana Celibidache Queen Elisabeth of Romania Princess Gregoire Ghica Princess Ileana of Romania Dora D’Istria Monica Lovinescu Ileana Malancioiu Queen Marie of Romania Dr. Agnes Kelly Murgoci Mabel Nandris Countess Anna de Noailles Ana Novac Oana Orlea Ana Pauker Marta Petreu Elisabeta Rizea of Nucsoara Sanda Stolojan Leontina Vaduva Anca Visdei Sabina Wurmbrand |
"Blouse Roumaine" - Extracts from the Book .................................................................................................. selected and introduced by Constantin Roman. Elisabeta Rizea of Nucsoara (1) .................................................................................................. (b. ca 1912, Romania) living in the village of Nucsoara, Co Arges Peasant Farmer, Resistance Fighter 86. Communists: “When these wretched communists came to power they took everything from us, the land, the wooden carts, -the hair off our heads – still, what they could not take was our soul.” (interview given on 20th May 2001, on the occasion of the private visit to her home of King Michael) -------------------------- Biography: Elisabeta Rizea was born before the WWI, in a small village of the Southern Carpathians, in County Arges. She was a peasant farmer with a minute plot of land, a modest wooden cottage, covered in shingles and a few animals. Her every day’s dress was the national garb, embroidered with intricate patterns. She left school at the age of 14 to do, what was expected of her lot - to help making a meagre existence off her small allotment. Her fierce opposition to the Communist expropriation and her husband joining the guerrilla fighters in the mountains led to torture and long years of imprisonment. She was branded “an enemy of the people” (“dusman al poporului”) and her household labeled “a home of bandits” (“casa de banditi”) – the worst possible indictment in the Comunist state. Once in jail, in the notorious Pitesti prison, Elisabeta Rizea was held chains and put on the death row. She outlived her death sentence to tell her story, after Ceausescu’s fall. Bibliography: Deletant, Dennis, “Romania under the Communist Régime”, Biblioteca Sighet, Published in Romanian by the Fundatia Academica Civica, Bucharest, 1997. Rizea, Elisabeta, “Povestea Elisabetei Rizea din Nucsoara” (“The Story of Elisabeta Rizea of Nucsoara”) Collected and Edited by I. Nicolau and T. Nitu, Bucharest, Humanitas, 1993, in Romanian). Cosmaciuc, Calin, “Regele a vizitat-o pe Elisabeta Rizea, “Monitorul”, 22 May 2001, Bucharest |
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