MĂRTURIILE DEPORTĂRILOR: „La nici 7 ani am fost dusă în Siberia”

Not even seven years old, Margareta Spânu-Cemârtan was deported with her family to Siberia, during the second wave of Stalinist deportations from Bessarabia, in 1949. The journey to exile meant three weeks spent in overcrowded train cars, without water or food. In this interview, the former deportee talks about one of the most painful experiences of her life: people dying during transport and being thrown on the side of the railway, the difficult living conditions in Siberia, the hunger, fear and humiliation to which those labeled as “enemies of the people” were subjected.