Ana Simion, a different Elisabeta Rizea
Ana Simion was born in 1920 in the village of Slatina, Nucșoara, into a peasant family whose parents had always worked hard on their piece of land. A seemingly simple girl who, like so many before her, was destined to fulfil the familiar destiny of rural life – working in the fields and raising animals in the summer, domestic activities such as weaving and knitting in the winter, and, in the ancestral order of things, early marriage and raising children, then grandchildren… A life that fits the Romanian rural typology, not so different in its main aspects from that of […]