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The political prisoners who worked on the renovation of the Casino in Constance in the 1950s wrote a message on a piece of paper torn from a cement bag, which they then hid under the plaster on the wall. A historical testimony, now brought to light.
The messages that the political prisoners constructed in the Casino from Constanza were a legend that, after 70 years, turned out to be true.
The one they now discovered was written on a piece of paper ripped from a cement bag by 14 of the 100 political prisoners who worked on the casino’s renovation in the 1950s.
They hoped that their relatives and loved ones would discover, someday, that on the last day of 1951 they were alive and working at the Casino de Constanza.
“This casino has been run by political prisoners since 1951, on December 31, run by architect Joja Constantin. The plasterer team led by Rusu A Ioan, Botoș Dumitru jud Arad, Jercău Constantin, Ciscău Gheorghe, Coraș Ionel, Sava Nicolae , Pop Ioan, Vlădescu Ilie, Hosu Petre, Hosu Ghegor, Anastasiu Ştefan, Gorboul Gidel and Babomer Fidel. “, Write in the message made public these days.
The detainees no longer knew if they would escape with their lives, and this was their way of sending a message to the future.
“It is a touching feeling, it is like when you find a note in a bottle in the sea or the ocean. We are talking about people who did not know if they would live to get out of prison. They were brought here as if to be exterminated, many of them weighed more than 40 kilograms when they got here. They did not know if they would be free again. The casino reveals secrets, these messages were a legend and today the legend becomes a truth, “said Radu Cornescu, the architect appointed to coordinate the rehabilitation works. of the Casino in Constanza, according to the municipality of Tomita.
This was the only way they could convey to their families that they were alive, without any guarantee that anyone would reveal the message to them.
“The messages were discovered when the shell window was discovered, the piece of bag was found in the plaster. It is clear that they worked here because they were able to hide these messages. They could not tell their families that they were alive, so they thought to write some simple thoughts and climbed. We hope that during the works we will find more messages from these people. We know that one of them was from Arad, we don’t know anything about the others, “said Radu Cornescu.
The message is part of the documents and sketches recently discovered by restaurateurs on the walls of the casino.
The casino is built with the same beams used on the Anghel Saligny bridge
The seashell window in the Casino’s performance hall, built in the mirror with that of the Aquarium, was built in the 1950s for the construction of a new hall.
The team of restorers decided that in the ongoing work to restore the value of this window, a work of art designed by the architect Daniel Renard.
The emotional message sent by political detainees comes shortly after experts made another sensational discovery.
In the basement of the building, the architects discovered riveted metal girders identical to those used to build the Anghel Saligny Bridge in Cernavoda, another iconic monument in Romania.
