Pitesti Prison Memorial is a memorial space inside the former Pitesti penitentiary, active between 1941 and 1977. The Pitesti Penitentiary is known for the Pitesti Phenomenon or the Pitesti Experiment, a period of extreme violence between 1949 and 1951, where about 600 students were thrown by the Communists into the hell of physical, mental and spiritual torture in forms hard to describe. The Pitesti Prison Memorial has recently opened its permanent exhibition, after several years of research and planning, in which a small team attempted to highlight the history of the former Pitesti penitentiary. Thus, centered on the theme of the Pitesti Phenomenon, the exhibition presents to the visitor... the context in which the generation that opposed communism was formed, but also the late dictatorship, in which the same generation was thrown with broken wings after years of detention. The building: Architect C. Duţulescu; modern, functional architecture built for the purpose of penitentiary. It was built between 1938 and 1941 at the edge of the Pitesti town, and in 1942 the first political prisoners, pupils imprisoned by the dictator Antonescu’s regime, were brought here. Between 1949 and 1951 the Pitesti phenomenon, one of the most violent forms of psychological and physical torture in the Communist camp, takes place at the Pitesti Prison. The building functions as a mixed prison - political prisoners and common law (women and men) until 1977, when the penitentiary is decommissioned. In the same year it was taken by the Argeş Industrial Construction Trust, and after 1990 the company was privatized, resulting in several private owners of the former prison building. The building has undergone a number of changes in interior partitioning over the years, following its transformation from the penitentiary into an office building. The first blocks have been built in the penitentiary area since the 1950s, and the building is currently in the center of a central district of Pitesti. It is historic monument, A grade. Owner: Piteşti Prison Memorial Foundation
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