Un caiet-manuscris din colecția Muzeului Național al Unirii Alba Iulia: Cartea Neagră a prizonierilor români din Rusia
A Handwritten Notebook from the Collection of the National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia: The Black Book of the Romanian Prisoners from Russia

Summary/Abstract: In the inventory book of the National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia, at the Document Collection is recorded a handwritten notebook (unidentified author) entitled the Black Book, with 178 persons‘ names from Transylvania who, being held prisoners by the Russians, did not enrol due to different reasons (inventory number 4584); a notebook with black covers, that entered the collections of the National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia in 1969. Those noted down on its 13 leaves were former soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Romanian natives (Transylvanian and Bukovinan) of whom, a part either refused or hesitated to enrol from the beginning in the Romanian army to fight for establishing Greater Romania. The author of the notebook was subaltern I. Lipovan, the text being drawn in 1919, based on data gathered in 1916 in the Darnita camp; it was revised only where the author held recent information, given the fact that a part of those aimed at enrolled as volunteers in the second corps of the Romanian volunteers from Siberia, and others participated directly in the National Assembly from Alba Iulia.

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