Commemorative practices and oblivion mechanism. The memory of the deportations of the Satu Mare Swabians)
In 1945, a series of violent events took place, bringing the greatest individual and collective trauma in the
history of the Satu Mare Swabians. The paper presents the various communication situations in which deportation
narratives were drafted and transmitted. I wanted to reveal all the channels in which the commemoration of the
deportations (both private and public) took/take place, paying special attention to changes in commemoration
forms, as historical phenomena, and also making a comparison between the approaches in the Swabian villages
from Romania and Hungary. In commemorating practicesof the deportations I distinguished four levels: individual
memory, memory of generations, communicative memory and collective memory, all four having different functions
and contexts