 The remaining German population was expropriated.The first Romanian colonists arrived in July, and in 1947 almost every house in Neubeschenowa was occupied by Romanians.1951–1956 saw the deportation of 62 families to the Bărăgan Plain to a makeshift shanty town by the name of Bumbacâri , north-east of Bucureşti, after the Soviet model of the Gulag.