Of World War I Horrors Case study: Children from Bîrgău Valley
Of World War I Horrors Case study: Children from Bîrgău Valley

Summary/Abstract: Under the First World War, the Transylvanian village witnessed significantchanges, mainly visible in social life, but also at the level of each family unit. The war horrors haveimpacted both nourishment, clothing and human interrelations, as well as the psychophysicaldevelopment in numerous children and young people. Illiteracy has reached alarming rates. The casestudy that we conducted emphasized an abominable fact, since childhood became brutal and wasirreversibly devastated by the horrors of war: children became instruments of the state, being used toinfluence parents, as participants to gatherings goods, attending parades, taking part in active workthroughout the war; the growing chores and responsibilities they were forced to take due to the lackof men within families have permanently overloaded them. The harsh conditions caused both by themilitary front as well as the home front, including the period after the conflict was ended, andsignificantly increased the number of war orphans, thus turning children into war victims.

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