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  • Rapporto di Gheorghe I. Brătianu (Carcere di Sighet).jpg

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  • Scheda personale di Constantin Brătianu (Carcere di Sighet).jpg

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  • Scheda personale di Ion Nistor (Carcere di Sighet).jpg

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Notable inmates

  • Victor Rădulescu-Pogoneanu
    1910–1962 · diplomat

    Victor I.

  • Ion Pelivan
    Ion Pelivan
    1876–1954 · diplomat

    Ion Gheorghe Pelivan (April 1, 1876 – January 25, 1954) was a Romanian politician. He was born in Răzeni, Bessarabia, the son of Gheorghe Pelivan and his wife, Eugenia Varuh Titica.

  • Ion Nistor
    Ion Nistor
    1876–1962 · historian

    Ion I.

  • Vasile Stoica
    Vasile Stoica
    1889–1959 · diplomat

    Vasile Stoica (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile ˈstojka], also known as Basil Stoica; January 1, 1889 – July 27, 1959) was a Romanian political writer, diplomat, and close assistant of European statesmen Tomáš Masaryk and Ion I.C.

  • Alexandru Tătărescu
    Alexandru Tătărescu
    1888–1951 · military officer
  • Augustin Pacha
    1870–1954 · theologian

    Augustin Pacha (November 26, 1870—November 4, 1954) was a Romanian prelate, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara.

  • Ioan Gheorghe Savin
    1885–1973 · editor

    Ioan Gheorghe Savin (December 19, 1885 – February 22, 1973) was a Romanian theologian, within the Romanian Orthodox Church.

  • Anton Durcovici
    Anton Durcovici
    1888–1951 · theologian

    Anton Durcovici (17 May 1888 – 10 December 1951) was a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the Bishop of Iași from 1947 until his death.

  • Constantin Argetoianu
    Constantin Argetoianu
    1871–1955 · military physician

    Constantin Argetoianu (15 March [O.S.

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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Sighet prison. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sighet-prison
Chicago
"Sighet prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sighet-prison.
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@misc{worldprisons-sighet-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Sighet prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sighet-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}