Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, nicknamed „The Lady of Romanian Comedy”, passed to the saints on October 15, exactly 21 years after the death of another great actress of our theatre, Leopoldina Bălănuţă. The actress was 90 years old and died at Elias Hospital, due to heart complications. Tamara Buciuceanu was born on the night of August 10, 1929, in Tighina, a city then in Greater Romania, today, in the Republic of Moldova.
She was born into a wealthy family and had a wonderful childhood, as the actress himself recalled: “I had a big house with a beautiful entrance. It was a boyar's house. Only my father was a magistrate… I had many rooms and a living room where I had a piano with a bronze plate, brought by my father from Brussels. We ate there every day. My mother liked to set the table as if we always had guests. Honestly, my house was full. He put the best silverware, crystals and porcelain, every day. He said he wanted us to feel good and always happy. I had a wonderful childhood. We didn't miss anything, and the parents got along perfectly.
My mother was an exemplary housewife. She also had help: the cook Fima „was a figure". The beautiful life, together with his three brothers, did not last long. In 1939 the non-aggression pact was signed between Germany and the USSR, World War II began, and in June 1940 the Soviets occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina - Tamara was only 11 years old. „When it was announced that we had to flee, it was 1940. We left in thirty minutes. Even when the refuge was launched”. The Buciuceanu family crossed the Prut, in Iaşi, to their maternal grandparents. "I lost everything. You realize what we went through. What did the parents go through… To run away in a few minutes… with the whole family… with four children [n.n. - in the Buciuceanu family another child will be born in Romania: Constantin]. It was very difficult for us to take it from the beginning… from the needle and thread. Very hard…”
Article written for the historia.ro website.
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