The Parliament’s Museum hosts an exhibition centering on deportations in connection with the commemoration of the deportation victims. The exhibition is organized by the Parliament’s Information Resources Section in cooperation with the National Archive Agency and can be visited until the end of July, IPN reports.

According to the Parliament’s press service, the exhibition of documents and photographs entitled “Ordeal of Deportations” contains files and lists in the original of persons deported under the totalitarian Soviet regime, documents of persons subject to political repression from different localities of Moldova, lists of persons convicted by military tribunals and recollections of deported persons.

Among the documents are the extract of the plan of the operation to deport “anti-Soviet elements” form Susleni village of Orhei district and the list of “anti-Soviet elements” from Călărași district, Vera Roșca’ application in Romanian to Khrushchev to free her husband Roșca Pavel Gheorghe from Unțești village of Ungheni district from detention, a court decision to allow inhabitants of Avdarma village of Comrat district in Bender County to return home from deportation places, etc.

The first wave of Stalinist deportations in Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina occurred on the night of June 13, 1941. Two more waves happened later, on July 5-6, 1949 and on March 31-April 1, 1951.