Chisinau hosts photo exhibition dedicated to victims of Stalinist deportations
21:00 | 05.07.2017 Category: Culture
Chisinau, 05 July /MOLDPRES/ – A photo exhibition entitled "Those ones who remained" dedicated to the victims of the Stalinist deportations of 06 July 1949 was opened at the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History today. The author of the exhibition is Clary Estes, volunteer in the US Peace Corps of Moldova.
The exhibition comprises 34 photographs, made by the author in two families of deportees – the Graur family in Vadeni village, Soroca district and the Postica family in Bubuieci locality, Chisinau municipality.
Interviewed by the agency, Clary Estes, photojournalist, said that the idea to make that exhibition came two years ago when she arrived as a volunteer of the Peace Corps in Moldova and was accommodated in a family of deported. Talking to the hosts, she learnt about the ordeal through which tens of thousands of Bessarabians passed during the Communist totalitarian regime.
According to the quoted source, the exhibition is part of a homonymous project that aims to exploit photographs, video interviews and archive materials to investigate and to know the things experienced by deported people on the present territory of Moldova during the Stalinist period, but also to reflect on how those experiences influenced the current society. Clary Estes wants to give the former deportees a strong voice to express themselves, and the opportunity to interact with each other in a more dynamic way.
At his turn, the director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, Petru Vicol, said that the photo exhibition " Those ones who remained " was a tribute not only to those who were deported in the second wave but to the Bessarabian Romanians who were taken to the Siberian ice in all three waves of deportations. "It is an extraordinary gesture of the author, who came from across the ocean to wake up the memory of the tragic event from the night of 05-06 July, when more than 40,000 people were deported from Moldova," said Petru Vicol.
Related to the exhibition, there also took floor doctor in history, Elena Siscanu, scientific researcher of the institution, the scientific secretary of the museum, Varvara Buzila, master photographer, Nicolae Pojoga and others.
The exhibition will be open until 06 August.
(Reporter N. Roibu, editor M. Jantovan)
