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English: The memorial to Florian Merghes (1905–1945) at the Giurtelecu Şimleului cemetery on Sept 22, 2012. As a fatal victim of an Oryol Soviet camp in Russia, the location of Mergheș's remains has not been identified. The 1981-built monument consists in a white marble plaque (facing the east) inserted into a concrete surround with a crucifix at the top. It was ordered by his son Teofil Mirghesiu (b. Giurtelecu Ș on Oct 20, 1938) to a Sǎrmǎşag builder in 1981. The marble engraved text says, "In memory of my father who died in the Second World War somewhere in Europe." His wife Floare Mergheş, née Gal (1907–1980) met in Bǎdǎcin two survivors who were with Florian Mergheș in an Oryol camp: Ştefan Man (living at 70 Bǎdǎcin, son of Simon and Ana) and Vasile Crişan (living at 233 Bǎdǎcin, son of Vasile and Domnica). Ş. Man and V. Crişan told her that in a morning they had seen a different inmate wearing Mergheş boots, a sign of his death of typhus in 1945 before the WWII end in the Oryol camp. Mergheș was born to the Greek-Catholics Ana Chiş (1886–1970) and Florian Mirghesiu (1880-1958) in Giurtelecu Ș on Jan 24, 1905 and grew up in their house (47.297279, 22.790532). Mergheş worked for: the Friedman Hermanʼs Distillery in Soruşa (Mǎlǎdia) and the Giurtelecu Ş distillery, both located on the left bank of Crasna River. In 1944, the Nazi proxy regime in Hungary sent Mergheș to a Tășnad forced labor camp before the Nazi Germany lost Tășnad to the Soviet Union in Oct 1944. His last letter received by his wife had been sent by Mergheș from the Tășnad camp H 911 on Sept 10, 1944. His memorial is located in the north side of his wife tomb. Her gravestone, behind the buxus, is identical to his memorial and also inseted (12 cm) in a common concrete plinth. She died in the room (47.297560, 22.789532) facing the street (DC-105) of their house at 125 Giurtelecu Ş, on Jan 18, 1980. On her gravestone, their only child who attained maturity wrote in 1981: "My life was work and faith in God."The two monuments are surrounded by an iron fence with a concrete base. Bibliography: Mirgheşiu, Teofil. 2011. Giurtelecu Şimleului. Montreal. ISBN 978-0-9868231-5-2; Mirgheşiu, Vasile Florin. People from Transylvania. Montreal. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9868231-0-7.