ww1 and ww2 romanian war cemeteries

It has been a week, by now, since I wrote an e-mail to ONCE, concerning the situation with the war cemetery from Gheboaia- Finta village, Dambovita county.
Still no reply....

After seeing the work in progress at the Tiganca cemetery, I thought they would gladly accept other restoration projects. Seems I was wrong. I will probably contact them by phone.

DEVA HERO'S GRAVEYARD 2006:

The small soviet section is being used as a toilet and slept in by alcoholic street people there are 28 headstones only one with a name, and its also inscribed how the body was returned to Russia in 1968.

The Romanian marble monument is falling to pieces and has been camouflaged for the ceremony on the 9th of May.

Only the 84 WW2 graves to the right of the Monument had flowers placed on them and the grass cut.

The 58 graves to the upper right and located behind the soviet section were left like a jungle.

Personally I think its an insult to the brave men who gave their lives in the service of the country that they have been left in such conditions . Local military units should bear the responsibility for cleaning and maintaining the graveyards if the local civil authorities wont do it.

MAJOR EDIT: In 2007 a radical clean up was started at this site, in Deva,

the Soviet section is being re-done, (made smaller)

The old white marble Romanian Monument replaced with a black one.

Even so the 58 graves to the left-side have very faded inscriptions in fact they are unreadable!!!


Typical Example.

Kevin in Deva.



This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on January 30, 2008 11:04 am

Well, today I got the response from ONCE. It seems that they know about the existence of the war cemetery from the village of Finta. It was arranged by the germans in 1917 and there are buried 488 heroes: 428 romanians and 60 germans. The papers with all the evidence for the burials were handled by the germans and we (romanian authorities) don't have them. Perhaps we will retrieve them someday.
There were only 2 romanian heroes identified: major Berindei and lt. Marinescu Vasile.
There were also erected 2 memorial crosses: one made out of wood, 17meters high (now missing) and one made from Campulung stone (still visible in the pictures about this cemetery above posted).
Anyway ONCE promised that they are going to make a visit to that place.

I hope they will keep me posted. I really want to help them with everything I can.

This post has been edited by ANDI on May 30, 2006 12:29 pm

Article in today's Adevarul daily (in Rumanian), titled: 'Cemetery in [Republic of] Moldova for the fallen [Rumanian] wartime heroes'.
http://www.adevarulonline.ro/2006-05-30/Ac...boi_186468.html

Gen. Dénes

More pictures of the Romanian overgrown side, to the rear of the Russian section



After a clean up:




Russian section in Deva Graveyard.

Major redesign of the Soviet section and the actual area is being made smaller:





Kevin in Deva.

This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on January 30, 2008 10:39 am

This all new Black marble is a virtual copy of the original white marble one in shape and size, the white one was seriously degraded with bits starting to fall off it.


New Monument in Black marble,l erected in 2007.


After a major revamp in 2007 this was just left by the workers employed to replace some of the boundary stones!

Bad enough that locals dump rubbish from the civil graveyard over the wall into the military section and this lot left in the bushes by the alcoholics who sleep there:angry:



Kevin in Deva

This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on January 30, 2008 10:54 am

Follow-up to the article I signalled yesterday:
'Regele trece Prutul'
http://www.adevarulonline.ro/2006-05-31/Ac...tul_186584.html

Gen. Dénes

More of the military cemetery of Buzau:

Im Kampfe Treu * Im Leben Fest * Im Dulden Stark * Im Sterben Frei




"In memory of the 968 German soldiers buried in this cemetery during the Second World War 1939-1945. Their fate urges reconciliation."
"Donated by Dieter Bourquin in the memory of his father who rests in this cemetery."

Turkish graves

The Soviet military cemetery of Buzau (16 identified soldiers, several mass graves)

Pictures from the Mateias mountain mausoleum (and osuary), Dragoslavele area, WW1.



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Details.

http://www.gandul.info/2006-07-14/drapelul_romaniei

Hmmm, why is it that I am not surprised ....!!!!!?????


This post has been edited by ANDI on July 14, 2006 06:49 am