The Association of Historians of the Republic of Moldova “A. Moșanu” during June 28 - July 5 will conduct a campaign to commemorate the victims of the organized famine of 1946-1947 and the victims of the Communist regime entitled “Hunrgy for Peace”. As part of the campaign, the films “Siberia from Bones” and “Memory Expeditions” made by OWH studio under the direction of Leontina Vatamanu-Mărgineanu and Violeta Gorgos will be screened in Chisinau, Cahul, Strășeni and Călărași. There will also be presented the mobile exhibition “Victims of Communism” staged based on materials of the National Archive Agency. The events will involve historians, victims of communist repressions, people of culture, priests and other invitees, IPN reports.
The documentary “Siberia from Bones” will be shown at the National Palace of Culture “N. Botgros” in Cahul on June 28, starting at 10am, and at “Odeon” Cinema in Chisinau on July 5, starting at 6pm, while “Memory Expeditions” – at “Odeon” on July 6, starting at 6pm. Entrance is free of charge.
This year Moldova’s Parliament, on the initiative of the Association of Historians of the Republic of Moldova and with the assistance of a number of personalities, in 30 years of the declaring of Independence instituted a day of remembrance of the victims of the organized famine, which will be celebrated on the last Saturday in April. According to the Association of Historians, this is only a first step towards the restoration of justice with regard to the innocent victims of the organized famine of 1946-1947.
The Association reiterates its call to educational institutions, the mass media, people of culture, churches and all the citizens to help collect information about the persons who died and suffered as a result of the organized famine and calls on the people to find mass graves of victims and set up crosses on those places.
The Soviet famine of 1946–1947 was a major famine in the Soviet Union that lasted from mid-1946 to the winter of 1947 to 1948. The estimates of victim numbers vary, ranging from several hundred thousand to 2 million. In the first half of 1947, almost 140,000 people reportedly died in the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic at a time when almost 82,000 people died throughout 1945, while 64,000 people died in 1946.
