Fleeing Romanians: The story of Miodrag Belodedici
On Sunday, April 24, 2016, the British television station BT Sport2, available to subscribers of the British Telecom, aired in its BT Sport films [...]
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The Babendererde case. In 1972, a German teacher was shot dead at Jimbolia, in front of his wife and child
About 800 East-German citizens attempted to defect to the West via Romania. Some 250 of them succeeded; and at least three died trying. Or so we [...]
Romania’s Communist Time Border Jumpers: jam-packed in car-trunks and top of train-carts
It sounds odd, but there was a lean Romania: the one of defectors fleeing the country jam-packed in car-trunks, in containers, in false ceilings of [...]
The Anton Frank case: “drowned” in the Danube River with strangling marks around his neck
Born in Romania, taking refuge in East Germany, drowning in Romania, fished out and buried in Bulgaria. This would be the sum-up of the tragic life [...]
The Leonte case: A Romanian student killed in Hungary, by a Romanian border-guard in pursuit
Student Gheorghe Leonte was shot dead on May 29, 1987, close to the Beba-Veche village, in the Triplex Confinium area (or triple border, in Latin), [...]
The John Pîrva case. He meets his torturers while walking the streets in his city (AUDIO)
You know, as I am talking to you now, I get the goosebumps: any memory gives me the shivers”, tells John Pîrva, and I see his eyes glowing behind [...]
AUDIO. Migrant Deaths Along The Romanian Border During Communism. ”I know about at least three people from East Germany who died at the border. Who were shot at the border”
Georg Herbstritt is a historian and researcher in Berlin, at the archives of the former East German secret service STASI. He is the guest [...]
„No one came to inquiry about them.” The defectors the Romanian State keeps into oblivion
Two weeks short of ten years ago, I strolled on the Serbian bank of the Danube River, among Romanian speakers, in Kladovo, Negotin, Tekija, or Donji [...]
Why were the East Germans taking the Romania route to West Germany?
When we launched the media campaign covering the defectors of the Communist regime, we also embarked on sifting through all the details of the [...]
“Romanian border guards open fire” – the account of a STASI informant on the situation at the Romanian borders
The archives will eventually tell the truth, no matter how contentious the topic of killing the defectors jumping the borders would be, or how long [...]
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