History & Culture
Experience history from a personal perspective: our eyewitness accounts provide authentic insights into past events – told by the people who experienced them themselves. These memories make history vivid, tangible and emotionally comprehensible.
Anna Ramsauer
This book brings together personal memories of life in Großau (Transylvania/Romania) during and after the Second World War – characterized by war, expulsion, dispossession, hardship and the desire for freedom. In moving stories, Anna Ramsauer impressively describes how closely community, faith and mutual help shaped life – despite great challenges.
The narrative ranges from the dramatic events at the end of the war, through the deportations and years of hardship, to their emigration to Germany. What remains is an awareness of the value of solidarity, memories and the courage to start again.
A testimony to a time that must not be forgotten – told by someone who lived through it.
Testimonials – Anna Ramsauer
Our desire for more freedom was boundless! Table of contents 1. foreword2. my birthplace Großau / Cristian3. The diversity of Transylvanian cuisine4. Großau fortified church5. Our mother's work as a castle guardian6. Baptisms in Großau7. Confirmation in Großau8....
Hutter Michael
This personal memoir describes the fate of a Saxon family from Großau (Transylvania) during and after the Second World War. In impressive scenes, the author describes the arrival of the Russian troops, the hasty evacuation of the village, the loss of property, deportations to Russia, the struggle for daily survival and the arduous new beginning after the expropriation.
The narrative ranges from the first encounter with the Cossacks to the dramatic escape and return to the destroyed village to the work on railroad lines and the famine of 1947, painting a moving picture of everyday life, the perseverance of the people and the difficult fate of the German minority in Romania.
