February 22, 1930 - Franț Țandără

Franț Țandără (22 February 1930, Izbiceni, Olt County – 2 May 2004, Giurgiu) was a Romanian communist and self-described torturer.

Țandără was born into a poor and dysfunctional family. Abandoned by both parents, he became an army ward at age 11. After the end of World War II he led a vagrant life, before becoming in 1946 a sympathizer of the Romanian Communist Party in Giurgiu. According to his account from an interview, he curried favor with Pavel Ștefan, a local communist boss, who found work for him at Căile Ferate Române. After a dispute with his father, though, Țandără killed his father with an axe; he was apprehended and sentenced to 12 years hard labor.

Țandără spent several years doing forced labor at the Danube–Black Sea Canal, and served as an informant to the communist authorities in the re-education camps there. After being transferred to Culmea, he was sent in August 1951 to Psychiatric Hospital no.

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