Asociația Foştilor Deportați în Bărăgan

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Asociația Foştilor Deportați în Bărăgan
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founding 1990
founder Silviu Sarafolean
Seat Timișoara
purpose The scientific processing of the deportation to the Bărăgan steppe by examining the Romanian archives and evaluating testimony of contemporary witnesses
Chair Silviu Sarafolean
Website depbaragan.webnode.ro

Asociația Foștilor Deportați în Bărăgan ( German  Association of Former Bărăgan Deportees ) is a non-profit , registered association that was founded in 1990 and aims to scientifically process the deportation to the Bărăgan steppe by examining the Romanian archives and evaluating testimony from contemporary witnesses has set. The association is based on Freedom Square ( Romanian Piața Libertății ) number 2, in the 1st district of Cetate in Timișoara , Romania .

The Foundation

prehistory

After the rift between communist leaders Stalin ( Soviet Union ) and Josip Broz Tito ( Yugoslavia ), triggered by different views on the economic and political development in the emerging Eastern Bloc and the resulting exclusion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform alliance in June 1948, tensions increased between Yugoslavia and Romania, who professed Stalin. The multiethnic population of the western Banat in the area of ​​the Romanian-Yugoslav border has been classified as a security risk by the communist government of Romania. For this reason, the Romanian government drafted a plan to cleanse the border area "from politically unreliable elements".

On June 18, 1951, Orthodox Pentecost Sunday , 12,791 families, which corresponds to 40,320 people, were abducted regardless of their nationality. Kulaks ( Romanian "Chiaburi" ), merchants , landowners and industrialists were deported for economic reasons, former members of the armed forces , anti-communists , refugees from Bessarabia and Titoists , as well as intellectuals, mainly teachers and clergy , but also criminals , were deported for political reasons . Romanians were just as affected as Germans , Serbs , Bulgarians , Hungarians , Jews and Aromanians . Residents of the western Banat were deported from an area 25–30 kilometers wide along the Romanian-Yugoslav border from the Timiș , Caraș-Severin and Mehedinți districts . The deportation ended in 1956. In 20106 armed soldiers and members of the militia were used to carry out the deportation .

Club history

In 1990, the Asociația Foştilor Deportați în Bărăgan Foundation was established in Timişoara. The founder and initiator of the association was Silviu Sarafolean , who chaired the association until his death in June 2012.

The main objective of the foundation is the scientific processing of the deportation by examining the Romanian archives and evaluating testimony of contemporary witnesses as well as publishing the research results in publications , films , lectures and exhibitions . The foundation is there to advise the people concerned and to seek redress for the injustice that has occurred. The association achieves its goal by publishing books , documentaries , organizing exhibitions , symposia , conferences and commemorative events .

The members of the association are intellectuals, farmers, artisans and merchants from Timișoara and the surrounding villages along the Romanian-Serbian border, places from the south-west of Romania that were affected by the deportation, from the Timiș, Caraș-Severin and Mehedin Krei districts. The association includes Romanians, Germans, Serbs, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Jews and Aromanians.

Club activity

As part of its research in the state archives of the state, the foundation created an extensive database of documents to document the deportation. This work resulted in the publication of a number of books and documentaries.

Chronological summary of the association's activities:

  • 1993 - Documentary by Lucia Hossu Longin: The Deportation to the Bărăgan , TVR 1
  • 1994 - Documentary by Lucia Hossu Longin: The Memorial of Sorrows , TVR 1
  • 1994 - Viorel Marineasa and Daniel Vighi: Rusalii '51 - fragments din deportarea în Bărăgan ( German  Pentecost '51 - excerpts from the deportation to Bărăgan ), Marineasa Verlag
  • 1996 - on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the deportation, a memorial in honor of the deportees in the Bărăgan was erected in the justice park ( Parcul Justiṭiei in Romanian ) in Timișoara . The monument was made by the sculptor Nelu Crăciun .
  • 1996 - Viorel Marineasa, Daniel Vighi and Valentin Sămînţă: Deportarea în Bărăgan - Destine, documente, reportaje ( German  The deportation in the Bărăgan - fates, documents, reports ), Marineasa Verlag
  • 1997 - Photo book: Fotomemoria unei deportãri ( German  The Photo Memory of a Deportation ) Graphic design: Mihai Botescu, text Viorel Marineasa, Daniel Vighi, Marineasa Verlag
  • 1998 - Rafael Mirciov: Lagărul deportării - Pagini din lagărul Bărăga nului ( German  The Deportation Camp - Excerpts from the forced stay in Bărăgan ), Mirton Verlag
  • 2001 - Silviu Sarafolean: Deportații în Bărăgan 1951-1956 ( German  Die Deportierten in den Bărăgan 1951-1956 )
  • 2004 - At the initiative of the Association of Former Bărăgan Deportees, a deportation house was faithfully reconstructed in the Banat Village Museum in Timișoara.

Awards

In 2000, the Association of Former Bărăgan Deportees was awarded the medal and certificate “Ten Years in the Fight for Democracy” by the Romanian President Emil Constantinescu in recognition of its work in the service of democracy and the establishment of the truth .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.memorialsighet.ro , In memoriam Silviu Sarafolean
  2. ↑ www.banaterra.eu ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Timişoara, Parcul Justiţiei - Monument închinat deportaţilor în Bărăgan @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.banaterra.eu
  3. ↑ www.timisoreni.ro , Casa Deportaților în Bărăgan