Moldovan Memories of Siberian Exile | zdg.md HD

On 12-13 June 1941, the first wave of deportations took place in Bessarabia and northern Bukovina – regions the Soviet Union had recently seized from Romania in what is now Moldova and Ukraine. Around 30,000 people were shipped to Siberia and other distant parts of the Soviet Union. A second wave took place in July 1949, when more than 35,000 people were deported, followed by a third, smaller wave in 1951. According to historians, the exact number of people who were deported is still not known; estimates speak of several hundred thousand people. Women, men, children and the elderly were forcibly loaded into wagons and taken to work in Siberia. Seventy-two years after those events, few of these people are still alive, and some can no longer remember the ordeal they endured. Liuba Novac, 92, and Zosim Punga, 88, went through the calamity of deportation, but managed to return home and rebuild their lives. Moldova’s ZdG (Ziarul de Garda) talked to them about how the victims experienced these events, the hardest moments they experienced, and the impact the deportations had on their families. Puteți susține Ziarul de Gardă devenind patronul nostru pe https://www.patreon.com/zdg Ne puteți urmări și pe: Telegram - https://t.me/zdgmd Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/zdg.md Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ziaruldegarda/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@zdg.md