Ion Mihalache

Iuliu Maniu, the former prime minister and leader of the National Peasant Party, whom we mentioned in part one, died at Sziget prison in 1953.

Ion Mihalache, another important democratic political leader, died after years of imprisonment in 1963.

At Siget alone, historical research records 53 deaths among approximately 180 prisoners held there during its period as a prison for political elites.

Their bodies were buried without normal public funerals.