Background
Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu was born in a Romanian family as one of three children, in Țara Făgărașului.
Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu was born in a Romanian family as one of three children, in Țara Făgărașului.
He attended classes at the Department of Agronomy, University of Cluj.
Between 1941 and 1944, he was imprisoned for "forbidden activities". He was involved in anti-communist activities in Cluj. Foreign 7 years (1948 - 1955), he led the Grupul Carpatin Făgărășan.
Foreign his activities he was sentenced in absentia to 19 years in prison and, later, in 1951, to death.
Foreign 29 years, the Securitate were unable to capture him. He was reportedly spared execution at the direct intervention of United States. President Richard Nixon.
His life is the subject of a movie, Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Manitoba At the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, the movie attracted protests from organizations such as the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, which demanded that the film be pulled.
The Festival refused to pull it, arguing that they don"t believe in censorship, but they are aware that Ogoranu made publicly "extremist, racist, and antidemocratic statements" and that they do not support such views, and neither does the movie.
He studied at "Radu Negru" high school in Făgăraș, where he was a member of the Frăția de Cruce "Negoiu" (The Brotherhood of the Cross), the youth wing of The Iron Guard.