AL DOILEA RĂZBOI MONDIAL ÎN MEMORIA COLECTIVĂ A COMUNITĂŢII GERMANE DIN ORĂŞTIE
THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF THE GERMAN COMMUNITY OF ORĂŞTIE

Summary/Abstract: The German community of Romania may become an oral history subject quite because the official history has serious lacks on this regard due to the political regime of the 20th century and the unknown less convenient part of the problem, ignored most of the time, could become more of interest. We had in mind for this study the German community of Orăştie, where due to industrialization of the 60s and 70s local Germans from the neighborhood went together, as well as in other towns as Blaj, Arad, Sebeş, Lupeni. Most of them setteled down right where they worked. Although their traditions, told events, even language or religion differ they form a community whose values are respected. They suffered together with the others and the single matter that counted was that they spoke another language than the oficial one for they were local Germans. The aim of the study is to integrate individual memory to a collective one, of the native place. We took 15 interviews with people born between 1917-1954, most of them women who had lived the experience of the Second World War and after that deported, but also people who analyze the German community and the changes in time. Their testimonies can be considered historical sources and also points of view on the events lived and told about because after decades the events are viewed within other experiences receiving new meanings. The refreshing process is integrated to a social framework due to numerous political coercions local Germans were confronted with but also implies the process of almost living again the event as well as justifies, understandings and interpreting.

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