Vasile Roaită

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title: "Vasile Roaită" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1914-births", "1933-deaths", "romanian-children", "căile-ferate-române-people", "people-shot-dead-by-law-enforcement-officers-in-romania"] description: "Romanian railway worker" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Roaită" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Romanian railway worker ::

Vasile Roaită (1914, Peșteana-Jiu, Gorj –16 February 1933, Bucharest) was a Romanian railway worker for Căile Ferate Române, shot during the Grivița Strike of 1933 and later touted as a proletarian hero under the Communist regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He is buried at the Izvorul Nou Cemetery in Bucharest.

The spa town of Eforie Sud on the Black Sea coast was named in 1928 Carmen-Sylva, after the pen name of Queen Elisabeth of Romania; the name was changed to Vasile Roaită in 1950, and stayed that way until 1962. Likewise, the village of Umbrărești-Deal in Galați County was named in 1933 after General Eremia Grigorescu; the name was changed to Vasile Roaită in 1950, and was kept until 1996.

References

References

1. Boia, Lucian. (2001). "History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness". [[Central European University.
2. Stoenescu, Alex Mihai. "Cum a fost inventat Vasile Roaită".
3. Opriș, Petre. (June 29, 2018). "Documente funerare despre câțiva membri importanți ai Partidului Comunist din România (1967)".

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