Radu Budișteanu

Born in Târgu Jiu,[1] he studied at the Saint Sava High School in Bucharest, where he started the "Ion Eliad Rădulescu" literary society.

[3][7] After King Carol II established a royal dictatorship in February 1938, Budișteanu was arrested;[6] in July 1938, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, held at Miercurea Ciuc, and escaped the massacre of Guardists carried out in the wake of Armand Călinescu's September 1939 assassination.

[10] The second decree called into question the legal status of Judaism, providing that all extant synagogues had to cease functioning unless expressly authorized to do so by the ministry.

Reacting to what was in effect the closure of synagogues and cemeteries, Chief Rabbi Alexandru Șafran persuaded Antonescu to cancel the measure.

Tried in 1956, he was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor,[6] and sent to Aiud Prison, where he agreed to undergo re-education from 1962 to 1964,[12] and also contributed articles to the propaganda organ Glasul Patriei, reproaching himself for past errors.