On February 8, 2024, the National History Museum of Moldova organized, in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, a new opening of the itinerant photo-documentary exhibition "Childhood in the Gulag" (curator dr. Ludmila D. Cojocaru).

The event took place within the 9th edition of the International Scientific Conference Cultural Heritage of Yesterday - Implications in the Development of Tomorrow's Sustainable Society with the generic "Women in Research: Destinies, Contributions, Perspectives".

The exhibition presents the life of Bessarabian children condemned to deportation, starvation, Russification, indoctrination and forced separation from their families, as result of repressive policies of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR, in the period 1940-1941 and 1944-1953. The exhibition brings together about 180 photo-documentary images, accompanied by memories and archival documents from the collections of the National History Museum of Moldova, the Edineț County Museum, the Museum of History and Ethnography in Soroca, the Pro Memory Institute, from the archives of the memory communities, as well as the family archives of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR.

The photo-documentary exhibition "Childhood in the Gulag" is elaborated with the support of "The Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

The photo-documentary exhibition "Childhood in the Gulag" can be visited at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova until 28 February 2024, from Monday to Friday, in the Golden Hall (ground floor), between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.