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The “Prison of Silence” Memorial in Râmnicu Sărat and the Educational Centre on Communism in Romania

The “Prison of Silence” Memorial in Râmnicu Sărat and the Educational Centre on Communism in Romania
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The implementation of the Memorial program and a visiting circuit within the Prison of Silence, which will introduce the public in the isolation atmosphere of the facility and the setting up of an Education Center on Communism in Romania, meant to disseminate information on the communist regime in the country and its consequences, represents an NPRR investment on Modernisation/creation of museums and memorials. 

The scope is to attract a high number of visitors and to transform a former place of isolation into one of reflection about the criminal nature of Communism. 

The prison in Râmnicu Sărat has operated for several years as a transit point for political prisoners who were being transferred to other detention centers to serve their sentence. 

A series of representatives of political parties, clergymen, as well as other unwanted persons were afterwards incarcerated for longer periods of time in “The Prison of Silence”.

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