comenius project 2011-2013,,young europeans say : break the walls, be tolerant ! “ presentation...
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COMENIUS PROJECT 2011-2013,,YOUNG EUROPEANS SAY :
BREAK THE WALLS , BE TOLERANT ! “
Presentation made by Comenius team
Students -7 th grade and 8-th grade
SCHOOL NR.308 , Bucharest, Romania
The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and the Resistance
Security Crackdown
This project is funded by the European Commission. The presentation reflects the view only of the author, and the European Commission is not responsible for the accuracy of the information.
Please do not forget ! To the question,
“Can memory be relearned?”the answer of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance in Romania
is a resounding “Yes”.
http://www.memorialsighet.ro/index.php?lang=en
Photomontages for Comenius Project made by 8 –th grade students
SIGHET PRISON The Sighet prison,
located in the town of Sighetu Marmaţiei, Maramureş county, Romania, was used by the communist regime to hold political prisoners.
It is now the site of the Sighet Memorial Museum,
IULIU MANIU Sighet prison was
reserved for political opponents of the communism regime.
Many important figures of inter-war Romania died in custody, including the leader of the National Peasants' Party and former Prime Minister of Romania,
Iuliu Maniu
SIGHET PRISON On 5 and 6 May 1950 over one
hundred dignitaries from the whole country were brought to the Sighet penitentiary (former ministers, academics, economists, military officers, historians, journalists, politicians), some of them convicted to heavy punishments, others not even judged.
In October-November 1950, 45-50 bishops and Greek-Catholic
and Roman-Catholic priests were incarcerated to Sighet.
PITESTI PRISON The Pitești prison was a
penal prison, but in reality it was political prison.
Best remembered for the brainwashing experiments carried out by the Communist authorities of Romania between 1949-1952 (also known as the "Pitești Experiment" or - the "Pitești Phenomenon").
Pitești Experiment
The Pitești Experiment was designed as a way of "reeducating" political prisoners opposed to the communist government of Romania.
RAMNICU SARAT POLITICAL PRISON
Ramnicu Sarat prison, one of the most feared prisons in Romania, the health and lives crushed political leaders of the interwar period, culminating in the extermination of period communist regime.
SILENCE PRISON 1945-1963
77.000 political prisoners in Ramnicu Sarat prison
Bărăgan deportations-Ethnic cleansing1951-1956
The Bărăgan deportations were a large-scale action of penal transportation, undertaken during the 1950s by the Romanian communist regime.
Their aim was to forcibly relocate individuals who lived within approximately 25 km of the Yugoslav border (in present-day Timiş, Caraş-Severin, and Mehedinţi region of Romania ) to the Baragan Plain.
School activities for Comenius Project in the 7-th class
April 2013