 In July 1945, the 28-year-old woman was arrested in Bucharest, and severely beaten by the secret police investigators.In a statement made in Paris in 1949, she named three investigators as having threatened her with guns, one of them being Alexandru Nicolschi.According to a 1992 article for "Cuvântul", Nicolschi ordered the murder of seven prisoners (allegedly the leaders of an anti-communist resistance movement) in transit from Gherla Prison in July 1949.