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those who remain / cei care au ramas
clary estes

December 7-December 21

Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 6-10 pm

Hundreds of thousands of people from a corner of eastern Europe were forcibly deported as political exiles during two waves of Soviet repression in the 1940s. Many of them died during the journey or in exile. Others returned home with shattered lives. Only a few survive today. “Those Who Remain” tells their stories.The Stalinist regime devised the deportation program to identify and exile political dissidents from what is now the Republic of Moldova. Those selected, often for reasons having nothing to do with politics, were killed or exiled with their families to remote regions of Kazakhstan and Siberia. Those who survived had to wait years to be liberated. If they managed to return home, they were systematically silenced and shamed by the Soviet and post-Soviet societies. Only recently, long after most of them died, have they been free to speak publicly about their ordeals.“Those Who Remain” gives voice to these former deportees, and to their children and grandchildren and bears witness to a profoundly important historical event that is little known by the rest of the world, as well as to the lives and deaths of the deportees who lived through it. These survivors have been waiting decades to tell their stories, which are shocking and harrowing, but also inspiring.

See their faces. Listen to their voices. Some are still with us, those who remain.

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Sute de mii de oameni dintr-un colt al Europei de est au fost deportati cu forta, fiind considerati drept exilati politici,
de-a lungul celor doua valuri de represiune sovietica din anii '40. Multi dintre ei au murit pe drum ori in timpul exilului. Altii s-au întors acasa, cursul vietii lor frânt pentru totdeauna. Doar câtiva mai traiesc si astazi. Proiectul "Cei care au ramas" spune povestea lor.

Regimul stalinist a conceput programul de deportari drept un mijloc de a identifica si exila disidentii politici din tara cunoscuta astazi ca Republica Moldova. Cei selectati, uneori pe motive care nu aveau nimic de-a face cu politica, au fost omorâti ori exilati împreuna cu familiile lor în regiuni izolate din Siberia si Kazahstan. Cei care au supravietuit au fost nevoiti sa astepte ani buni sa fie eliberati. Cei care au reusit sa se întoarca acasa au fost umiliti si redusi la tacere în mod sistematic de catre societatile sovietice si post-sovietice. Abia de curând, cu mult dupa ce majoritatea dintre ei au murit, le-a fost îngaduit sa vorbeasca liber despre caznele îndurate.

Proiectul "Cei care au ramas" ofera o voce fostilor deportati, copiilor si nepotilor lor. Reprezinta dovada unui eveniment istoric de o importanta considerabila, prea putin cunoscut de restul lumii. Acesti supravietuitori au asteptat zeci de ani ca sa-si spuna povestile, povesti care sunt socante si cutremuratoare, dar si pline de speranta.

Priviti-le chipul! Ascultati-le glasul! Unii se afla înca printre noi, cei care au ramas.