1945 ÎN MARAMUREŞ: MEMORIA LOCURILOR ÎNTRE ISTORIE ŞI POVESTIRE. (POVESTE CU JIZI)
1945 in Maramures: The memory of place between history and narration

Summary/Abstract: This oral history study continues to tell a story told by the old inhabitants of a village nearby the border to Ukraine. According to this story, after their returning from deportation, in 1945, a group of jews were killed by „bandits” nearby the border, in a place named Copilaşu. As a revenge, the jews from Sighetu Marmaţiei promissed to kill a 250 local Ukrainians for every jew killed before. This statement determined the intervention of Militia. According to the facts, some questions are still unsolved: Who were the „bandits”? How were the jews gathered in the village? How did they know they were shot in Copilaşu? Etc. Anyway, it was a very difficult period of time according to the border and to the regime and the story needs to be veryfied and researched for the present answers are not sufficient. Still, it is a testimony about the oppresion nearby the border in the N-W part of Romania.

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