Neuitarea eroilor români ai Campaniei din Est. Între deziderate și trăiri personale
Keeping the Memory of the Romanian Heroes on the Eastern Front Alive. Between Objective Goals and Personal Experiences.

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the preoccupations of the Romanian authorities after 1990 to recover the memory of the military men (dead and prisoners) who had fallen in the 1941-1944 campaign alongside Germany. The author, through the positions he held and the long-time study in former-Soviet archives, brought a great contribution to the identification of Romanian military prisoners, in Soviet concentration camps, to the establishment of Romanian commemorative monuments of war on Russian territory, as well as to the editing of valuable volumes of documents, of which one work stands out: Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. Documents 1941-1956, Monitorul Oficial Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013. Thus, in 1998, through the kindness and with the financial support of the German side, the instalment of the first Romanian commemorative monument of war took place in Rada, Tambov region, in the international cemetery where 11,969 foreign soldiers, all dead as prisoners of war, had been buried. 1,996 of them were Romanians. Another relevant accomplishment was the compilation of the nominal list of 20,718 Romanian prisoners of war (military) and hospitalised (deported civilians), who had passed away between 1941-1956 in the concentration camps, hospitals and special units of the NKVDMVD, respectively the Soviet labour battalions that existed on the present Russian territory. Through significant research and organisational efforts, on October 15, 2025, with the occasion of the Day of the Romanian Army, the Romanian military cemetery from Rossoska was inaugurated, close to Stalingrad. The second Romanian military cemetery in Russia, inaugurated on November 26, 2018, is found in Apsheronsk, District of Krasnodar (1,500 km south of Moscow).

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