Who was Armin from Brasov Romania

I love history and I love stories. History is the cheapest way to travel through time. You can go anywhere with it. You can photograph and document stories. One picture can tell a different story to different people, a sequence of images is already a story that begins to be uniform. You must have wondered who Armin Brasov was. This story is dedicated to Armin.

Armin died at the age of 98 in January 2018. He was among the last remaining Jews in Brasov, his family moved to Israel, and he remained in Brasov. Armin believed in communism, modesty, and equality, even though he was the most educated member of his family. He studied communication in the for of radio and was recruited to Romanian Secret Service (Tsautsko's

Securitate), where he installed spy technologies in people's homes. Communism died and Armin's ideology died too. He remained alone in Brasov without a family or children and eventually without friends. Then he began to approach the Jewish community of Brasov and return to this roots. Armin was my grandfather's younger brother and I visited him over a period of 7 years. Each time I arrived he shared stories of his life, family, and espionage. I listened and took pictures with my mind and photos with my camera. One of the painful things he told me a year before his death was that he felt that he didn't know anyone in his town anymore. In the last year of his life, Armin moved to a retirement home in Bucharest. Even though he was in a retirement home, Armin still kept the keys to his old apartment in Brasov and would carry a picture of himself from his younger years as a captain in the Romanian Secret Service.