zied, a singer left in hurry

zied/veseud/vesszod, open songbooks and lose pages everywhere

inside. Some of them are from the beginning of the 1900's. The usual

spiderwebs over them, and all kind of rubble and dead bugs. Comments

are welcome.

CSAB', maybe the time was 1944or45, toward the end of WWII. So glad you explained what you found, gives your photograph some meaning....Jim

Hi Jim.

 

Maybe i didn't explain myself properly. The books themselves are from the biginning of the century. They are not abandoned so long ago - only in the 1980's and 90's. There were two waves of emigration of the saxon (german) people from the region. One was more or less artifficial, in the 1980s, when Ceausescu practically "sold" them to Germany, for cars and such - meaning, they were allowed to leave Romania in change for goods from the german state. The second wave was in the nineties, after the fall of the iron curtain, when they were officially able to leave if they preferred; many left in that time. Some villages got completely abandoned, the number of inhabitants went from a few thousands to a few tens. Only very old people stayed, especially in the more remote places. An old guy told us "ot", that is, five, in hungarian (he heard we are hungarians), that's the number of saxons that still live in the village. He can be seen in another image, closing the gate of a church (i will upload it soon).