Stories related by deportees in photos and archive documents at National Archeology Museum

Hundreds of photographs, documents, letters from Siberia, lists with confiscated property and personal belongings of former deportees were exhibited at the National Museum of Archeology and History on the occasion of 61 years of the second deportation wave of July 6, 1949, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Thousands of people died 61 years ago. It is important that the young generation know about the suffering endured by our great-grandparents and grandparents,” the museum's head Eugen Sava said at the opening of the exhibition. Attending the event, Prime Minister Vlad Filat said every citizen must know what deportation means and the exhibition “Incarcerated Destinies” allows finding out details about the lives of the deportees. Valentina Sturza, the head of the Association of Former Deportees and Political Prisoners, said it is for the first time in 20 years that such an exhibition was staged and that a museum of the deportees is proposed to be created. “The people who lived in gulags and witnessed genocide need such an exhibit,” she said. The museum's deputy head Elena Postica said the historians have the moral obligation to discover the historical truth in the name of all the victims of the Communist repression. “I was nine years when I was deported together with my father, who was taken out of the train and shot in Siberia. I was woken up and taken away in only a plain dress,” former deportee Lucica Scortescu said at the exhibition. Nina Sandu, who had the same destiny, said with tears in her eyes that she will never forget the sufferings through which they went in in Siberia. The exhibition will be open for a month.