Persecuted Christians
in Suceava, Rădăuți, and Iași

Three lists, plus one stop at the border. I add a sum only inside one list. The study does not put them into one total.

The people in the trial

What the paper says	Count
Imprisoned. The study writes: Paul Gross, Matei Fakner, Gheorghe Hoffman, Mihail Kloos, Manfred Herbert. The family writes my father as Hofman.	5
Eight other people, fined. The names stay in the study.	8
Imprisoned and fined, in this trial	13

Amnesty and Keston write about the same five. I do not count them again. The German citizen stopped at Stamora-Moravița is not one of the 13. The study does not give his name.

The cars, the night of 18/19 October 1980

The Militia checkpoint at Suceava. Two cars with Alba plates.

What the paper says	Count
Russian Bibles	576
Booklets	167
Printed pieces, these two rows	743
Tape cassettes	40
Sacks	7

21 house searches, by 31 October 1980

The note cited by the study. It speaks of houses. The checkpoint above speaks of cars.

What the paper says	Count
Bibles	2,719
Brochures and magazines	2,135
Illustrated cards	555
Loose sheets	874
Leaflets	1,605
Printed pieces, these five rows. Of these, 2,719 are Bibles.	7,888
Foreign radio-cassette players	5
Foreign radios	5
Foreign tape players	7
Tape cassettes	135
Knitting machine	1
Electric cookers	12
Washing machine	1
Freezers of 160 liters, made abroad	2
Fake wedding rings	5
Roll films	2
Dacia 1300 cars, each with a cassette player. I do not add them to the 7.	4
Diesel	510 liters
Made trousers. The note calls them stolen from the Rădăuți cooperative.	35

If the 576 Bibles from the cars are not already inside the 2,719, the reading would be 3,295. The study does not add them. I do not put 3,295 in the title. I do not add the 167 booklets on top of the 2,135, nor the 40 cassettes on top of the 135.

Stamora-Moravița, 10 August 1980

The same name, Canalul-80. Another day, another stop. A German citizen.

What the paper says	Count
Religious brochures	2,355
Cassettes	20
Pictures of Jesus	200
Flyers	no number

I do not add the 2,355 brochures into the 2,135.

The money

I do not add one currency to another.

The mark was the money of West Germany. The 10,600 marks are 5,419.69 euro, at the 1999 rate: 1 euro = 1.95583 marks. The Swiss franc was Switzerland’s money, the dollar America’s, the zloty Poland’s, the ruble the Soviet Union’s. The lei in the row below are the lei of that time.

What the paper says	Count
West German marks, from the five, in the study	10,600
Swiss francs, in the study	650
U.S. dollars, in the study	101
Zlotys, in the study	2,060
Rubles, August 1978, my father’s working transcription. They are not inside the 10,600. The study does not put the currency charge on his name.	170
Lei. The same sum: the value of the 170 rubles, owed jointly with Kloos. Not a second pile of cash.	2,822

Tape players and cassettes

The same papers, set here so the machines and the tapes can be seen. This is not a second haul. I do not add one list on top of another.

Where	What	Count
The cars, 18/19 October	Tape cassettes	40
21 houses, by 31 October	Foreign radio-cassette players	5
21 houses	Foreign radios	5
21 houses	Foreign tape players	7
21 houses	Tape cassettes	135
21 houses	A tape player in each Dacia 1300. I do not add them to the 7.	4
Stamora-Moravița, 10 August	Cassettes	20
The barn at Jalcău, 30 October	A Philips tape player and cassettes. They may already sit inside the 135.	1 and 12
My father’s receipt, 17 November	Tape player I.T.T. 6331-24-05, defective, and 25 tapes. After the note of 31 October. I do not add them to the 135.	1 and 25
The same receipt	Metal clips	5
The same receipt	Used films. I do not add them to the 2 roll films in the house note.	2
Dorel’s statement	The same I.T.T. player, bought from Kloos for 1,000 lei, and about 45 cassettes at home. One held a sermon by Iosif Țon. This is not the figure on the receipt. I do not add them to the 25 or to the 135.	about 45
Margareta’s statement	One tape player that was given to her. No brand. I do not count it again.	1
Her statement	Some of the recorded cassettes, at her brother in Grănicești. No inventory.	no number
The coach papers	Cassettes with Iosif Țon’s voice. A different line from the cassette at home. I do not add them to the 40 or to the 135.	no number

No number, or already inside

• Four sacks under the hay at Jalcău. The search is from 30 October, so they may already sit inside the 21 houses. The paper gives no book count. I do not have the page that says the 4 sacks are the rest of the 7.
• On the same barn inventory: one Philips cassette player and 12 cassettes. They may already sit inside the 135. I do not add them.
• The paper sacks in my mother Margareta’s statement: clothes and Bibles. She does not give 576 and she does not say Karlsruhe. She did not see foreign currency, gold, or gold objects. A tape player was given to her. The statement gives no brand. I do not count it on top of the 7. She says some of the recorded cassettes were at her brother in Grănicești. We do not have that inventory.
• From my father, on the working transcription: 29 graphic prints, 25 tapes, and one tape player, I.T.T. 6331-24-05, defective. The receipt of 17 November 1980 also lists 5 metal clips and 2 used films. It is after the note of 31 October. I do not put them on top of the 135 cassettes, and I do not add those 2 films to the 2 roll films in the houses.
• Dorel’s statement: about 45 cassettes were at home, and the I.T.T. player had been bought from Kloos for 1,000 lei. One cassette held a sermon by Iosif Țon. This is not the figure on the receipt. I do not add them.
• The coach papers also speak of cassettes with Iosif Țon’s voice. No number. That is a different line from the cassette at home. I do not add them to the 40 or to the 135.
• One house, given as an example in the same note: over 2,000 brochures. They already sit inside the 2,135.
• The study writes of 13 depots in Iași, Botoșani, and Suceava. It gives no inventory for each.
• The Stamora-Moravița flyers stay without a number.
• On 17 November 1979, an earlier search found only „câteva Biblii” (a few Bibles). That is not the haul of October 1980.

Canalul-81 is another case. I do not put it here. There is no single total of everyone. The title stays what the study reports for the trial: five imprisoned, eight fined, 2,719 Bibles in the houses, 10,600 marks.