Josef Damas and his wife Maria, in 1910

"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. . ."
says the fox to the Little Prince.
Josef and Maria are just two of so many thousands of descendats of the Donauschwaben, who all have tamed the marshland of the Banat. Their descendants are today even further away from this land than the
Little Prince was from his planet, but they still call the land our rose.