Deportations were one of the most traumatic episodes in the contemporary history of the Republic of Moldova. A unique feature of the deportations from Moldovan SSR was the impossibility for deported persons to verbalize the traumas caused by the deportations. Within the State Program "Recovery and Historical Valorization of the Memory of Victims of the TotalitarianCommunist Regime of the Moldovan SSR during 1940-1941, 1944-1953" 300 of interviews were conducted with persons deported during the Stalinist repressions. For some of the deportees, these interviews represented the first possibility to officially verbalize their stories. The following questions arise vis-à-vis the particularity of the interviewer-interviewed relationship: how did the researcher perceive the traumatic experiences reported during the interviews? What are the emotional experiences of interviewers? The article presents the results of a qualitative research that investigates the way the traumatic information is perceived in the interviews with deportees. The hypotheses of the study is that in the process of interviewing with the deported persons, elements specific to psychotherapeutic process will appear. The content analysis of the material reveals some similarities between the psychotherapeutic process and the interview: the actualization of traumatic material and intense emotional state of interviewed persons, the effort of interviewers to contain the emotional state of the deportees, the appearance of some emotional state of interviewer's associated in the psychoanalytic literature with counter-transference reactions: depression, anger, guilty, physical pain, insomnia.