
Niculina Moica felt the weight of history as she pushed open the rusty iron gate to the former Communist prison of Jilava, where she was detained as a teenager.
Jilava is one of 44 prisons and 72 forced labour camps set up under Romania's Communist regime (1945-1989) to incarcerate more than 150,000 political prisoners, according to the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes.