Nicolae Churique was among the partisans who operated in the Banat and Mehedinci mountains after the Second World War, in the period 1950-1954, opposing the communist regime installed in Romania. Betrayed by an acquaintance, Zurica was arrested on April 22, 1954 at a friend’s house in Kornerev. He was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor and was held in several penitentiaries in Guerle, Ayud, Jilaw, Mina de Plumb and Baia Mare.

Churique was released 10 years later, in 1964, when the head of state, Gheorghe Georgiou-Dej, signed a decree releasing all political prisoners. He settled in the town of Teregova, where he had a tannery. In 2016, President Klaus Iohannis awarded Nicolae Kurike with the national Order of Faithful Service in the rank of knight for his courage in the fight against the communist regime. On February 15, 2024, Nicolae Churique turned 93 years old, he became the last surviving partisan of Romania. Read more at fanatik.ro

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