Ion Ioanid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ion Ioanid

Romanian dissident

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1926

Place of Birth: Ilovăț, Mehedinți County, Romania

Date of Death: 12-Oct-2003

Profession: writer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Ion Ioanid (28 March 1926 – 12 October 2003) was a Romanian dissident and writer.
Ioanid was a political prisoner of the communist-led regime after the Second World War and spent 12 years in prison and labour camps.
He is best known for taking part at the 1953 Cavnic labor camp escape and for his book "Give us each day our daily prison" (Închisoarea noastra cea de toate zilele), a reference to the verse from the Christian Lord's Prayer.
The book is a comprehensive recollection of his time spent in detention.
He is considered a Romanian Solzhenitsyn, as his description of the communist detention regime in Romania is the most detailed one submitted by one of its victims.