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The "War Heroes - 100 Portraits" concept exhibition featuring one hundred fervent believers in the national ideal will open at the Bucharest National Village Museum on Tuesday and will be on display till January 30, 2019.
"Through this project, this cultural institution created immediately after the Great War by Dimitrie Gusti, the founder of the Bucharest School of Sociology, pursues the continuation of the field research conducted by Gusti's teams, presenting - mainly to the young generation but not only - 100 characters who have boldly believed in the national ideal, fighting and sacrificing themselves, and tracing with their blood the borders of Greater Romania," the National Village Museum said in a release. "The 100 hero portraits depict peasants, teachers, priests, doctors, nurses, artists, journalists, politicians hailing from Basarabia, Bucovina or Transylvania, and we couldn't have omitted the heroes coming from hundreds and thousands of kilometers away to help the Romanian people edging close to the history abyss: Serbian volunteers, the French Military Mission and the US Red Cross Mission," the cited source said.
Also showcased in the exhibition alongside the portraits will be objects from 100 years ago, used in campaign hospitals, by the drafted priests or by the peasants who left their families and households and signed up for the battlefront.
