The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance from Sighet (Maramures) : Romania is the first country in the world that has a museum of the Communism, thanks to the writers Ana Blandiana and Remulus Rusan. You can also visit in Bucharest, on 66 Jean Louis Calderon street (between Maria Rosetti and Grădina Icoanei streets) the permanent exhibition of the Sighet Memorial in Bucharest, “Memory as a form of justice”. The greatest victory of communism, a victory dramatically revealed only after 1989, was to create people without a memory – a brainwashed new man unable to remember what he was, what he had, or what he did before communism. The creation of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance is a means of counteracting this victory, a means to resuscitate the collective memory. Made up of the Sighet Museum and the International Centre for Studies into Communism, based in Bucharest, as well as being the organiser of the Summer School the Memorial is an institution of Memory, unique in that it is simultaneously an institute of research, museography and education. 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”. The Sighet Memorial - a path not only to the past, but also to the future Ana Blandiana Such as individuals, the nations distinguish each other not only through the way they lead their destiny, but also how they know to value it. The Polish were able to define as dignity their secular misery, the Jewry turned their martyrdom into apotheosize. On our part, the science of matching things was, unfortunately, almost every time, unknown. Almost every time we preferred to welcome our guests not with tears, but with bread and salt and to treat our wounds in quietness and desolation. There is a lot of loneliness in the destiny of the Romanian nation and there is also an unbeatable silence. The Sighet Memorial arises from the belief that this loneliness must stop. And it cannot stop unless the silence ceases. visit the site: memorialsighet.ro/index.php?lang=en
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:13:31 +0000
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