Emil Rebreanu – o graniță între datorie și conștiință
A border between duty and conscience

Summary/Abstract: Right in the heart of the beautiful area Ghimeș – Palanca there is a monument built in the memory of the hero Emil Rebreanu. He was the model of the character Apostol Bologa, the protagonist from the book „Padurea spanzuratilor” which was written by his brother, Liviu Rebreanu. Emil Rebreanu was the fifth child in a family of fourteen and he was born in the morning of 17th December 1891, in the village Maieru. When the World War I started, Emil joined the army and fought on the battlefield. He fought in the Russian and Italian trenches until 1916 and then he was transferred to the Romanian battlefield. In 1917, during the night between the 10th to 11th of May, Emil secretly left the premises of 16th Infantry brigade trying to sneak through the barbed wire network. He was caught by a patrol, which had been watching him all the time, accused of trying to desert the army, convicted and executed on the same night. The cultural society „Emil Rebreanu” was set up in 1990 by teachers Dumitru and Rodica Cojocaru from Palanca. Its purpose was to gather outstanding Romanian personalities to commemorate the people who fought in World War I and to learn the young generation about great Romanian writers such as Liviu Rebreanu who wrote about the cruelty and sometimes absurdity of a war. Nowadays, at Ghimes-Palanca there is a mini-museum in honor of Emil Rebreanu.

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