Once they reached their destination, deportees were left in the field between two stakes which marked the home plot assigned. There they threw together, with things brought from home, their first shelter.
As winter approached and there was no time for building a house, deportees dug huts...
Adobe was made for the new house...
A new house erected by a family of deportees
In the summer, after one or two years, vegetables and fruit trees were grown.
The house of Swabian deportees from Variaș
The deportees also grew animals.
Street in the Movila Gâldăului village
Passing hastily on the street...
View along the street
Outdoors altar
Communion
Young Swabians brought with them customs from home: Bändertanz
The Isler family in front of their house
Winter in Bărăgan
The snow kept growing...
...until it reached the eaves.
Fundata: the graves of those that have never seen their homes again
Hope never dies. In 5 years this child will see his parental home.
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