In the middle of August 1916, just before Romanian involvement in the WWI, the authorities in Bucharest took drastic and violent measures against the civil population in Dobrudzha. Between 25 and 30 thousand people most of them representatives of the pick of the population in the region were violently interned in concentration camps in Moldova.  Among them were also people from other nationalities in Dobrudzha as Turks and Germans.  About three-quarters of these innocents died of cold, hunger and tortures.
Although the problem with the kidnapped   people of Dobrudzha found some international reverberation it is solved not until January 1918. Returned from exile people undergo a mandatory, and then they were allowed to go to their homes. For this tragic and little known episode of the history of Dobrudzha today reminds only monumental slabs with the name of departures in different villages and districts.