Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania și reeducarea de la Aiud. Noi contribuții documentare: dosarele Securității
Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania and re-education in Aiud. New documentary contributions: Security files

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes to analyse the activity of Bartolomeu Anania in the context of the Aiud re-education, an episode that created controversy in the memorialistic literature of the Romanian Gulag. The paper will exclusively use documents from the Securitate archives, excerpts from the files of Bartolomeu Anania, of other prisoners, as well as files belonging to the Aiud Operative Group. The role of the article is to provide researchers and the public with new documentary sources that help understand the topic of the Aiud re-education. Regarding the activity of Bartolomeu Anania in the re-education, as shown by the Securitate documents, we notice the marginal role he had, limited to the public reading of the “self-unmasking” declarations, in the imposed pattern of the re-education clubs’ meetings; also noticeable are Anania’s discussions with Ilie Niculescu regarding the tense relationship between Christianity and the legionary movement and, towards the end of re-education, his minimal contribution (a four-page material on Corneliu Codreanu) to the “Book of the Re-education”.

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