{"id":8601,"date":"2023-10-11T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/2023\/10\/11\/oamenii-locului\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:40:14","slug":"the-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/en\/2023\/10\/11\/the-locals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Locals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8601\" class=\"elementor elementor-8601 elementor-7161\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7de0ed75 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"7de0ed75\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-68e4a3d\" data-id=\"68e4a3d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57240132 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"57240132\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 31-07-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:heading --><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ELISABETA RIZEA (1912 \u2013 2003)<\/h4>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":6934} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"588\" class=\"wp-image-6934\" src=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/english\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Elisabeta-Rizea.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Elisabeta-Rizea.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Elisabeta-Rizea-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Elisabeta-Rizea-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Elisabeta-Rizea-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"16\" data-lineheight=\"26.0833px\">&#8220;I&#8217;m like a mask now, ma&#8217;am, from the agonies I&#8217;ve endured and the wickedness I&#8217;ve harbored. That&#8217;s how it is. And to come home and find nothing!! I found nothing. If I cut my finger, I had nothing to bandage it with. Everything I left in my house, in my storehouse, and in my yard\u2014I found nothing. I can&#8217;t even begin to describe the bitterness within me and all the torment inflicted on me by these thieves&#8230; They lived in the mountains for ten years. After ten years, they were caught. And there was no stability anywhere. They searched them one by one. They had huts in every valley and on every hill. When that little girl was born, they made a cradle from a fir bark, sewed it, and sealed it with resin so it wouldn&#8217;t leak and gave her a bath. Until they could find a proper cradle. We would take things to them when we could, and when we couldn&#8217;t, we wouldn&#8217;t, and they endured.&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maxresdefault-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-text\">\n<p>Elisabeta Rizea was born on June 28, 1912, in Domne\u0219ti, Arge\u0219 County. She was the niece of the leader of the &#8220;\u021b\u0103r\u0103nist&#8221; movement, Gheorghe \u0218u\u021ba, who was killed by the communists in 1948. She attended school until the age of 14, afterward following her destiny in the anti-communist struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Elisabeta Rizea lived in a beautiful wooden cottage, surrounded by a courtyard filled with flowers and animals. Her everyday attire consisted of a national costume, embroidered in black and white.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1719-114705483-866256920527795-4004098136808345020-o-horz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1249\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1719-114705483-866256920527795-4004098136808345020-o-horz.jpg 1249w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1719-114705483-866256920527795-4004098136808345020-o-horz-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1719-114705483-866256920527795-4004098136808345020-o-horz-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1719-114705483-866256920527795-4004098136808345020-o-horz-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1719-114705483-866256920527795-4004098136808345020-o-horz-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1249px) 100vw, 1249px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-text\">\n<p>The communists came to power in 1945. In response, Rizea joined the resistance and supplied fighters in the mountains with food and money for four years. Her opposition to communist expropriation and her husband, Gheorghe, joining the resistance fighters in the mountains led to torture and many years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>She actively supported the anti-communist resistance group Arsenescu-Arn\u0103u\u021boiu. She served 13 years of hard imprisonment for actively supporting the &#8220;Terrorist Gang.&#8221; The &#8220;boys&#8221; were actually heroes of the anti-communist resistance in the F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219 Mountains. She was labeled an &#8220;enemy of the people,&#8221; and her household was considered a &#8220;bandit&#8217;s house,&#8221; the gravest accusations in a communist state. Arrested by the militia, she was sentenced to 7 years in Pite\u0219ti prison, where Elisabeta Rizea was placed in a maximum-security cell.<\/p>\n<p>Released in the spring of 1958, Elisabeta continued to communicate with Resistance officers through a &#8220;post box&#8221; in the hollow of a tree in Valea Morii. When the leader of the anti-communist resistance, Gheorghe Arsenescu, was arrested in 1961, Elisabeta Rizea was arrested again, and her sentence was extended by another 25 years. She was transferred to Mislea prison, where she was incarcerated alongside Mrs. Ion Mihalache and dozens of Legionary women.<\/p>\n<p>In prison, Elisabeta was beaten so many times that, in an interview in the early &#8217;90s at the Memorial of Pain, she couldn&#8217;t even recall all the instances to describe them. However, she never denounced the members of the resistance. Her sentence also came with the confiscation of her entire estate, leaving Elisabeta toothless and bald, with mutilated feet and her dignity trampled upon in the prisons of Pite\u0219ti, Jilava, Arad, and Miercurea Ciuc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6956 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1-mihai-rizea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1-mihai-rizea.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1-mihai-rizea-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1-mihai-rizea-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caezu.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1-mihai-rizea-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-text\">\n<p>Under the terms of a general amnesty, Rizea was released from prison in 1964. For almost 30 years, she was kept under strict surveillance by investigative authorities. She was constantly summoned for interrogations, and together with her husband, they were considered &#8220;enemies of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>35 years later, her story was published in Romanian newspapers and featured in documentaries about the communist era. In May 2001, Mrs. Rizea received a visit from King Michael I, whom she had known since childhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He used to tell riddles, and I would laugh. Once, we roasted corn together, but he gave me the part with the bigger kernels,&#8221; Rizea recounted. &#8220;I will love him until I die, like the apple of my eye. I wish for him to be the king of Romania, to always be in the country.&#8221; King Michael and Queen Ana had lunch together with Elisabeta Rizea, who served them red eggs, sponge cake, and wine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, the heroine Elisabeta Rizea passed away, hoping that she left behind a better Romania.<\/p>\n<p>TVR Interview Memorial of Pain Episode 24 &#8211; Elisabeta Rizea &#8211; The Brave Woman from Nuc\u015foara.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTHxSjDZnB8\\u0026feature=emb_logo\",\"type\":\"video\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"youtube\",\"responsive\":true,\"className\":\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTHxSjDZnB8&amp;feature=emb_logo<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:embed --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELISABETA RIZEA (1912 \u2013 2003) &#8220;I&#8217;m like a mask now, ma&#8217;am, from the agonies I&#8217;ve endured and the wickedness I&#8217;ve harbored. That&#8217;s how it is. And to come home and find nothing!! I found nothing. If I cut my finger, I had nothing to bandage it with. 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