Brinzaru brought him to a room filled with a wide variety of torture instruments. Richard knew the days of soft interrogations had come to an end. 'I used to hold you on my knee when you were a baby,' Brinzaru had told the young lad. Major Brinzaru had a reputation for being a refined, intelligent sadist with arms as hairy as a gorilla's and a knack for extracting information.īefore he became an interrogator, he had worked for a popular politician whose son was arrested for leading a patriotic movement. Richard, like all the other prisoners, dreaded that name. 'Tomorrow you will meet Comrade Brinzaru.' Richard Wurmbrand became a powerful advocate for persecuted Christians. 'His name is Jesus Christ,' Richard said, his face throbbing, 'and if he wants to, he can release me.' 'Can't you see that you're completely at my mercy and that your Saviour, or whatever you call him, isn't going to open any prison doors?' 'You've been playing with us,' Colonel Dulgheru shouted, delivering a blinding punch to Richard's cheek. This extract from an inspiring new biography is published on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. His wife Sabina was also imprisoned and brutally treated. He was to spend 14 years in prison, undergoing torture and abuse. His 'crimes' were leading Christian worship and witnessing to his faith, both of which were illegal under the Communist regime. On February 29, 1948, Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was arrested on his way to a church service.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |