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8 months in the Belene camp
Offence: son of a provincial governor in the Kingdom of Bulgaria
40 days in the Lovech camp
Offence: hooligan, son of a member of the opposition
8 months in the Belene camp
Offence: son of an officer in the king’s army
8 months in the Belene camp
Offence: son of a provincial governor in the Kingdom of Bulgaria
40 days in the Lovech camp
Offence: hooligan, son of a member of the opposition
8 months in the Belene camp
Offence: son of an officer in the king’s army
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Tsvetana Dzhermanova
4 years in labor camps
Offence: anarchist
Tsvetana Dzhermanova 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.
Nikola Daskalov
8 months in the Belene camp
Offence: son of a provincial governor in the Kingdom of Bulgaria
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/manhandled, 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.
