The article refers to the results of the State Program “Recovery and Historical Valorification of the Memory of Victims of the Totalitarian-Communist Regime of the Moldovan SSR during 1940-1941, 1944-1953”, conducted by researchers from the Institute of Social History “ProMemoria”, under State University of Moldova, together with other universities and research institutions from Republic of Moldova. The conceptual-theoretical basis was a psychoanalytic one, having as reference the psychoanalytic researches dedicated to the social phenomena and the collective traumas from 20th century. The empirical research approach was a qualitative one and involved the thematic-categorical content analysis of in-depth interviews with deportees and the content analysis of questionnaire responses and of in-depth interviews with researchers from the State Program. The article presents results of the State Program regarding the memory of deportations, the experiences of researchers during interviews with deportees, the issue of subjectivity-objectivity in oral history projects, the traumatic specifics of deportations.