{"title":"\"Romanian Siberia\" in the Traumatic Memories of Bulgarian Catholics from Banat","authors":"Marinela Mladenova","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i2.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article presents some personal experiences and memories related to the deportation of Banat Bulgarian Catholics (1951-1956) in the open labor camp Baragan, Romania. These processes are related to the plans of the communist regime in Romania to deport, following the Soviet model of deportation, people living within a radius of 25 km along the border with Yugoslavia. This area is inhabited by different ethnic groups – Germans, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, Vlachs from Macedonia, Romanians, etc., considered \"high risk factors\". The publication is based on the memories of Rafael Mirchov, deported with his family when he was only 10 years old from the Banat Bulgarian village Star Beshenov to Baragan.","PeriodicalId":40507,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum","volume":"191 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Balkanistic Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i2.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article presents some personal experiences and memories related to the deportation of Banat Bulgarian Catholics (1951-1956) in the open labor camp Baragan, Romania. These processes are related to the plans of the communist regime in Romania to deport, following the Soviet model of deportation, people living within a radius of 25 km along the border with Yugoslavia. This area is inhabited by different ethnic groups – Germans, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, Vlachs from Macedonia, Romanians, etc., considered "high risk factors". The publication is based on the memories of Rafael Mirchov, deported with his family when he was only 10 years old from the Banat Bulgarian village Star Beshenov to Baragan.
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"Balkanistic Forum" is published since 1992 as a yearly edition of the “Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialization” to the South-Western University “Neofyt Rilski” Blagoevgrad. Since 1995 it is published in thematic issues -3 issues per year. The main task of the Journal is to provide free forum for discussing important historical and present problems of the Balkans in European and wider context. It is designed as an interdisciplinary journal uniting the efforts of specialists in History, Sociology, Literature, Anthropology, Linguistics, Culture Studies.