On 12 July, a discussion on the deportations of the 1950s took place in the conference room of the Bucharest office of the Sighet Memorial. The event was attended by the pupils from Lower Secondary School no. 1 in Plătărești; survivors of the deportations Ileana Mateescu and Lăcrămioara Stoenescu; Nicolae Constantinescu, president of the Memoria Cultural Foundation; Valeriu Antonovici and Claudia-Florentina Dobre, directors of the documentary film; historians Ioana Boca and Cosmin Budeancă; Mihaela Stoica, principal of Lower Secondary School no. 1 in Plătărești; Anca Ispas and Constanța Marinescu, teachers of Romanian language and literature at the Lower Secondary School no. 1 in Plătărești.
The event is part of the project Caravan of History initiated by the Memoria Cultural Foundation in collaboration with the Plătărești Lower Secondary School no. 1. Supported by the Plătărești Town Hall, it is funded from the NextGenerationEU plan of the European Union through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Funds for a modern and reformed Romania.
The institutional partners in the project include the Civic Academy Foundation – Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance, the Iuliu Maniu Memorial House Association in Bădăcin, the Postmodernism Museum Association, the Corneliu Coposu Foundation, the Museum of the Horrors of Communism in Romania, and the Union of Professional Journalists of Romania.
