Tsvetana Dzhermanova (1928-2024) was born on 20 March 1928. Tsvetana attended the primary school in the village of Leskovets and completed her middle school studies in the village of Batanovtsi.

She became interested in the ideas of anarchism in 1946. In 1948, she was arrested in a drive against anarchists in Bulgaria and was sent to the forced labor camp in the village of Bosna, near the town of Silistra. In December 1951, she was transferred to the women’s section of the Belene camp (Shturcheto camp), where she remained until April 1952.

After her release from the camps, she was resettled a number of times. Tsvetana Dzhermanova passed away in 2024 at the age of 94.

Nikola Daskalov was born on 08 September 1934. His father, Dimitar Daskalov, was a provincial governor of Plovdiv.

Following the communists’ coming to power, Nikola’s father was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death.

He was executed by firing squad on 10 February 1945. Nikola and his mother were resettled away from Sofia. Later on, Nikola was sent to the Belene camp.

Kolyo Vutev (1940-2022) was a wrestler and a wrestling coach), born on September 10, 1940, in the village of Toros, near Lukovit. He was interned, without trial or sentence, when he was only 18 years old, in the labor camp near Lovech, which was also known as Sunny Beach. The reason for his internment was his unruly nature for which he was considered a hooligan. It is likely that contributing factors for his internment were that, in the words of Kolyo himself, his father opposed the expropriation of the villagers’ property and the formation of the cooperative labor agricultural farms, while his grandfather had been a mayor of the village. Kolyo Vutev passed away in 2022 at the age of 82.