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Village Name<\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong> Cilieni (village in the eponymous commune, Olt County)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>

Region, Country<\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong> Oltenia Region, Romania<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>

Deportation Date<\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong> September 1942<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>

Excerpt from Testimony<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\u201c[\u2026] They then went to Pitiluvka and were taken by gendarmes to Kovalevka, where they were <\/span><\/span>housed in a small house with two rooms. Many people died there, especially from typhus. The <\/span><\/span>bodies of the deceased were thrown into a pit, kerosene was poured on the<\/span><\/span>m, and they were burned. <\/span><\/span>They received rye flour and cornmeal and made polenta. The buliba\u0219a, escorted by guards (both men <\/span><\/span>and women), would enter the house, count the people, and then distribute the food rations. They used <\/span><\/span>a copper cup to measure the food<\/span><\/span> and pour it into a sack. No one tried to steal food from the cart <\/span><\/span>because they were afraid of the guards.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>

Romanian Archives (if available)<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>

The Romanati Gendarmerie Legion, which was responsible for the Cilieni commune, created a list at <\/span><\/span>the beginning of September 1942 of sedentary Roma from the county who were proposed for <\/span><\/span>deportation. 21 Roma (5 families) were included on this list (ANI, IGJ<\/span><\/span> Fund, file no. 127\/1942: f.<\/span><\/span>29). The name of the interviewee does not appear on this list.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>

Historical Note on the Roma<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>

The commune of Cilieni is situated on the right bank of the Olt River, approximately 30 km from <\/span><\/span>Caracal. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was part of Romana\u021bi County and had a population <\/span><\/span>of 1,997 (MDGR 1899, II: 406). By 1930, the population had gr<\/span><\/span>own to 3,257, of which 57 were <\/span><\/span>sedentary Roma (RGP 1930, II: 376<\/span><\/span>–<\/span><\/span>378). According to the interviewee\u2019s testimony, some of these <\/span><\/span>Roma engaged in agriculture, working as day laborers on the estates of large landowners in the <\/span><\/span>region.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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Historical Note on Deportation<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>

At the beginning of September 1942, the interviewee\u2019s family was in the village of Cilieni, about <\/span><\/span>100 km from Cerat commune. The family was deported from Cilieni, along with 21 other Roma <\/span><\/span>(ANI, IGJ Fund, file no. 127\/1942: f. 29), and transported by truck<\/span><\/span> to Craiova. The local gendarmes <\/span><\/span>promised the deportees that they would have a better life in Transnistria. On September 12, 1942, the <\/span><\/span><\/span>deportees were boarded into freight cars attached to the special E8 train bound for Tighina. After a journey of about three days, they arrived at their destination and were transferred to another train, being disembarked in Ocheakov County. Before crossing<\/span><\/span> the border, the gendarmes confiscated their <\/span><\/span>belongings.<\/div><\/div>
Once in Transnistria, the Roma deportees were placed in Kovalevka commune (Ocheakov County) <\/span><\/span>to work in a kolkhoz. Initially, they lived in a house from which Ukrainian locals had been <\/span><\/span>evacuated. A lack of food, along with a typhus epidemic, decimated the R<\/span><\/span>oma population (including <\/span><\/span>the interviewee\u2019s grandparents). The bodies were collected by the guards and incinerated in a nearby <\/span><\/span>pit. After a few months, the deportees were moved to Mostovoi (Berezovka County) and forced to <\/span><\/span>live in barns. The deportees tried<\/span><\/span> to buy food from the locals, exchanging gold, but the threat of <\/span><\/span>reprisals was always present due to the Volksdeutsche troops, who committed violent acts (rapes and <\/span><\/span>summary executions). <\/span><\/span><\/span>The interviewee likely repatriated in the spring<\/span><\/span>–<\/span><\/span>summer of 1944. They left Transnistria with the <\/span><\/span>Romanian<\/span><\/span>–<\/span><\/span>German retreating troops. Their family joined a convoy of 300<\/span><\/span>–<\/span><\/span>400 Roma who set off on <\/span><\/span>foot toward Romania, facing numerous dangers (Soviet bombings an<\/span><\/span>d reprisals from retreating <\/span><\/span>German troops, who executed a group of Jews in a barn). Many Roma died on the way from cold <\/span><\/span>and hunger (the interviewee\u2019s father died in Sevastopol). They managed to board a train heading to <\/span><\/span>Romania. Upon arriving in Cerat, they<\/span><\/span> found that their house had been destroyed. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>
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A Brief Note on an Aspect of the Roma<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>

Some of the Roma in Cilieni commune are engaged in agriculture.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"listing_category":[64],"event_category":[],"service_category":[],"rental_category":[],"classifieds_category":[],"listing_feature":[81,78,82,77],"region":[69],"class_list":["post-1431","listing","type-listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing_category-deportations","listing_feature-german-perpetrator","listing_feature-rail-deportation","listing_feature-romanian-perpetrator","listing_feature-sedentary-lifestyle","region-oltenita"],"yoast_head":"\nDeportation of Sedentary Roma from Cilieni - Translated - Yahad-In Unum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/romagenocidemap.org\/ro\/listing\/deportation-of-sedentary-roma-from-cilieni-translated\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ro_RO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deportation of Sedentary Roma from Cilieni - Translated - Yahad-In Unum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Village Name: Cilieni (village in the eponymous commune, Olt County)Region, Country: Oltenia Region, RomaniaDeportation Date: September 1942Excerpt from Testimony:\u00a0\u201c[\u2026] They then went to Pitiluvka and were taken by gendarmes to Kovalevka, where they were housed in a small house with two rooms. 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