Iuliana Preduţ

Born on the 16th of June 1929, Corbi, Argeş county, teacher, daughter of the priest Ion Constantinescu (member of anticommunist resistance group from Argeş region). She was arrested on the 21st of June 1958 and tortured at the Securitate’s headquarters from Piteşti, although she was seven months pregnant. She was accused of helping the anticommunist fighters from the region and of not denouncing them. She was sentenced to 12 years hard labour for “omitting to make a denunciation”. On the 18th of September 1958, in Văcăreşti prison, she gave birth to a baby girl named Libertatea (Freedom). After three months, her daughter was taken to an orphanage. Iuliana Preduţ was released in 1964, when her daughter was 6 years old.