13.12.2012 21:48 (0 comments)
Today, 13-th of December I had a presentation of our results at the Library of the Academy of Public Administration from Kishinau. It began at 16.00. At the meeting participated Lecturers from this institution. I spoke about the research we made, about the Ukrainian perspective and Romanian perspective. At the end I referred to the Onega lake...
06.12.2012 11:30 (0 comments)
Some information on our excursion to Moldova:
04.12.2012 11:02 (0 comments)
At the end of October, finally, our symposium took place. We had decided to shift the focus a little bit and put our emphasis on returning home from war as the critical moment of postwar history. Therefore, we had not only POWs as protagonists of the event but also DPs, forced labourers and exiled persons using the idea of returning home as...
04.12.2012 11:01 (0 comments)
Due to Visa-problems, unfortunately, our partner from Moscow, Konstantin Tsimbaev, couldn't come to our symposium. Therefore, the evaluation of the part of our project which took place at the RGGU is currently happening via email. Konstantin Tsimbaev did integrate our project and the discussion around returning POWs home after the war into...
03.12.2012 12:20 (0 comments)
The presentation of our new book took place in Prague on 28th November 2012. There were held very interesting discussions. Thanks to all participants!
03.12.2012 02:35 (0 comments)
Letztendlich haben wir unsere Ausstellung zu Druck vorbereitet. Zwei wochen brauchten wir Zeit für die technische und grammatische Bearbeitung der Texsten und Abbildungen. Die Suche nach der Designe und passenden Motiven für Hitergrund der Ausstellungstafen haben viel Gedunld und Mühe gekostet. Am 10. Dezember werden wir unsere Ausstellung...
30.11.2012 15:57 (0 comments)
Today, 30-th of November 2012, at the international conference - Politics and practices of memory in Eastern Europe: between the totalitarian past and a european future. Organized by INIS ProMemoria, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and CASE Center for advanced studies and education. I presented some general aspects of our research -...
27.11.2012 21:02 (0 comments)
Jetzt geht es in die heiße Phase: nach langer Zeit der Materialsichtung und -ordnung haben wir endlich einen Plan ausgearbeitet, nach dem nun in den nächsten Wochen der Film "Lenin in Vogelsang" entstehen soll. Wir haben uns vorgenommen, dass er maximal 60 Minuten lang sein soll und Ende des Jahre soll zumindest der Rohschnitt stehen, damit...
21.11.2012 10:22 (0 comments)
We want to invite you to the presentation of our book "Communists and Uprisings", which takes place in the pub U kacíře in Prague (Mánesova 87) on 28th November 2012. The presentation will start at 5 p.m. You are welcome!
20.11.2012 11:31 (0 comments)
Partisan and diplomat Dragica Srzentic, who in 1948 delivered a historical letter by Josip Broz Tito for Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow, celebrated her 100th birthday in Belgrade. Srzentic told reporters that she had not known the subject matter of the letter she carried to Moscow and that she had not...
15.11.2012 23:57 (0 comments)
Der Film wird am 21.11.2012, 12h, an der HU, Dorotheenstr. 24, Berlin, im Seminar "Sexuality and Gender in the German Imaginary: Memorialization, integration and modernization" mit englischen Untertiteln gezeigt. Wir freun uns auf die Diskussion mit den Studierenden! There will be a screening of our film on Nov 21st 2012, noon, @ Humboldt...
09.11.2012 13:35 (0 comments)
Die "taz" is auf unsren Film aufmerksam geworden: http://www.taz.de/1/berlin/tazplan-programm/artikel/?dig=2012%2F11%2F08%2Fa0048&cHash=68eec5f58206b5726cdf69bd9978570a
05.11.2012 11:28 (0 comments)
"Szukając Emila - Looking for Emil" wird am 14.11.2012, um ca. 20.30h im Offenen Raum im KuBiZ Raoul Wallenberg, Bernkasteler Str. 78, Berlin, gezeigt.
04.11.2012 23:05 (0 comments)
Before our film will be ready, you can see short relation from our meeting with our interviewees - in was in the last day of our stay in Busk and Krasne. Duration of the meeting was about 2 hours, but we choose some interesting moments and make 15-minutes movie: http://youtu.be/RemnwiCsqw0
03.11.2012 17:21 (0 comments)
Dear all, There is an exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia entitled "The War and Remembrance" which gathered the anti-fascist fighters from across Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, there was only one woman among them -- war heroine Ida Sabo. It was a real pleasure and honour meeting them all, especially at the final phase of our...
29.10.2012 08:42 (0 comments)
We are happy to present the exhibition "Religions in Movement" in Ukraine. It was opened on October, 15, in presence of the head of Architectural facultee of KNUBaC (Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture), Mr. A.V. Kachenko and the head of architectural theory department, Mr. L.N. Kovalsky. The exhibition attracks...
25.10.2012 20:34 (0 comments)
On the 16th and 18th of October there were two presentations of the results of our project work: in V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) and in the Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) at the gathering of the Society for Intellectual History. A lot of students and professors from departments of...
25.10.2012 19:42 (0 comments)
Short description of our project was given in the announcement about our presentation in the Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia): http://www.hist.sfedu.ru/news-83.html
22.10.2012 13:03 (0 comments)
Pidzamche project was also presented at the discussion "Urban Life in Eastern Europe: Roundtable on the Theme of Urban Life after World War II: Characteristics of Research and New Approaches" which was held on September 10, 2012 at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. The main guests of discussion were Thomas Bohn, a German...
22.10.2012 11:15 (0 comments)
Some of current Geschichtswerkstatt Europe projects were given testing attention of wider academic audience at The 2nd International Congress of Belarusian Studies held in the end of September in Kaunas, Lithuania. Though main focus of Congress was Belarusia, the different researches from neighbour countries were also presented. The...
18.10.2012 13:35 (0 comments)
Finally, our filmhistoric symposium (25.-27.10.2012) is drawing closer... We will have again a film screening, and several presentations on different European movies dealing with war returnees. After having been to the oldest cinema of Leipzig and a cosy arthouse cinema, this time we will host the film screening in the lovely Grüner Salon...
11.10.2012 13:32 (0 comments)
Unter den Teilnehmern des Projekt wurden die Vorbereitungsaufgaben verteilt. die Vorbereitung läuft in drei Richtungen: Stände-Skizzen, Film-Szenario und Zusammenfassung des Begleitungskatalogs. Die Stände werden volgende Übertitel haben: 1. DP’s- Projekt-Team: - Logo, Titel, Untertitel; - Thesen/Hauptideen; - Team- und...
11.10.2012 08:58 (0 comments)
The final product of our research was finished. The book "Komunisti a povstania/ Communists and Uprisings" was published. You can find more information to the book on website: http://cefres.hypotheses.org/267 The book is available online: http://www.forumhistoriae.sk/e_kniznica/ksinan.pdf
10.10.2012 11:55 (0 comments)
Our team member Roman Khandozhko presented (in writing) the results of our project work for the International scholarly conference "Peoples of the South of Russia in the fatherland wars" having taken place on the 6-7 of September, 2012 in Rostov-on-Don. Roman wrote the summary of his case-study - official discourse and social practices of...
10.10.2012 10:56 (0 comments)
We almost ended our movie - we need to make the subtitles in 3 languages: Polish, English and German yet. The translation is going on, and now we would like to present the article about our project. One of our participants, Halyna Bodnar, publish it in Ukrainian journal «Наше слово» (Nasze słowo), you can see it...
10.10.2012 10:42 (0 comments)
The last month was full of action in our project: In the end of August we welcomed Russian guests in Vogelsang, who talked with the locals about their time in the garrison. Afterwards we went to Russia, where we met with further contemporary witnesses in Moscow and St.Petersburg. We conducted six interesting interviews, shot a lot of...
05.10.2012 02:32 (0 comments)
Presentation of the research project "Memory of WWII from the Local Perspective: Stalinism and the Thaw" took place on the 1st of October, 2012 in Hrodna (Belarus). Each member of our group presented the results of case-study in respective city, as well as summary of general comparative research. We were also expecting the advices and...
05.10.2012 02:26 (0 comments)
Presentation of the research project "Memory of WWII from the Local Perspective: Stalinism and the Thaw" took place on the 29th of September, 2012 at the Second International Congress of Belarusian Studies in Kaunas (Lithuania). The congress gathered more than 300 researchers, analysts, and journalists interested in Belarus and wider...
03.10.2012 18:27 (0 comments)
Dear Colleagues! On the 29th of September the member of our team Tatyana Kapitonova have presented the preliminary results of our project at the Second International Congress of Belarusian Studies, which was held in Kaunas (Lithuania), 28 - 30 September 2012. Our presentation was on the section "Diversities of (Post) Communism in Central...
01.10.2012 15:48 (0 comments)
Now our workshop and filmscreenings are over. We had it all: a three hours Soviet road trip, heated discussions over what Borchert might have wanted if he had lived longer, and of course many new and interesting insights on our project about pows and their return home. After a short summer break which we used for further investigation, we...
01.10.2012 14:41 (0 comments)
Now, we, the members of our team can communicate mainly by email. Andrey began the ordanizing of the information in Russian and Ukrainian (from newspaper, archive, interviews), Marius id doing the same thing with the material in Romanian and Maryan is looking for typographies price offers of printing. At Chisinau is a exhibition at the...
28.09.2012 18:24 (0 comments)
Vom 3.09 bis 6.09 hat unsere DP-Gruppe aus Deutschland unsere Kollegen in der Ukraine besucht. Wir haben an der Historischen Istitut der Akademie der Wissenschaft der Ukraine ein Workshop organisiert. dort wurden unsere Ergebnisse zusammen mit den bekannten Historikern aus der Ukraine disskutiert und...
24.09.2012 20:19 (0 comments)
Second set of field trips (July, August, September) took place further in the north in Kalevala and its surroundings and resulted in a plenty of new material. Kalevala is situated by the lake Keski-Kuittijarvi, approx. 80km from the Finnish border. The regional centre was renamed as Kalevala in Soviet times, the original...
14.09.2012 21:25 (0 comments)
Now the member of our team Aliaksei Lastouski is intensively researching in Hrodna (Belarus), paying special attention to cemeteries and burial places, monuments and memorial sites. Hrodna was marked by relatively big number of memorial sites dedicated to civil population and Soviet war prisoners executed by the Nazis. Also...
03.09.2012 11:14 (0 comments)
During this meeting the final report was prepared. It is a pity that our participants from Belarus could not attend the meeting, but we’re via skype in close contact with them. We prepared also the templates for the panels of the exhibition. The exhibition will be translated in 4 languages and shown in Minsk, Krakow, Kiev and...
27.08.2012 20:59 (0 comments)
Es haben sich weitere Zeitzeugen gemeldet, die wir diese Woche zu ihren Erinnerungen an das Lager in Lasowice interviewen. Heute startet unser zweiter Drehblock und wir freuen uns, dass die Spurensuche erfolgreich ist. - Es ist schon erstaunlich, wie das Wissen ueber diesen Ort so langsam zum Vorschein kommt. Wir merken immer mehr, dass es...
25.08.2012 12:49 (0 comments)
"Szukając Emila" wird am 29.08.2012, 20h im Rahmen der Europäischen Sommeruniversität »Erinnerung und Medienbiographien – generationen- und geschlechtsspezifische Perspektiven« in der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück gezeigt!
19.08.2012 08:39 (0 comments)
In short about progress in our investigation: 1. Objects visited, actual pictures made in order to encourage further analysis. 2. Archives scanned, some dating and events are confirmed or checked. We are lucky to look through a reconstruction project of one from our objects. 3. Eyewitnesses interviewed, interesting rumors and ratings fixed,...
18.08.2012 13:43 (0 comments)
Now I am in Moldova. Here it is a little piece from my diary. Kemping (in Chernivtsy). Around 9.00. Saturday. The red bus to Novoselitsya (Noua Sulita)is leaving the station. I drank a plastic cup of soluble coffee. And have a feeling of melancholy for this region. Nearly three weeks we travelled in the past. It was a fruitful trip....
14.08.2012 18:59 (0 comments)
These is the photo of two children borned in Yamal. Their parents were deported from Dranitsya (the component village name is Negrinets). I copied this old photo yesterday.
14.08.2012 18:53 (0 comments)
Mahala is a special case for us. It is a large village 6 km from Chernivtsy. Several interviewed told us that a lot of persons were deported from there. On Sunday, 12-th of August, Marius and Andrij didn-t succeedeed in finding the two old women who survived. I tried to do it today again. It was a rainy day, slow buses, and complicated...
14.08.2012 18:51 (0 comments)
Horbova is a Romanian village in the reyon of Hertsa, Chernivtsy region. The picture was made on 4-th of August 2012.
14.08.2012 18:48 (0 comments)
We found this house at the margin od Dinoutsy (Dinivtsy), Chernivtsy region, on Saturday, 11-th of August.
13.08.2012 18:58 (0 comments)
We excuse for publishing so late the scan of our press release. It appeared in June in four regional newspaper from the northern Moldavia in Romanian language.
13.08.2012 18:43 (0 comments)
On Friday we had an one more interview in Boyan(i). He was borned in January 1945, while his father was at the Onega lake camp, where he died. In the evening Maryan left to Lwiw. On Saturday Andrij and Marius travelled firstly to Novoselitsya (Noua Sulitsa) and from there to Malinesht and Dinouts. There we had 3 large and one very short...
11.08.2012 11:16 (0 comments)
Jetzt haben wir unser letztes Interview mit Hildegard Schöneck, der ehemaligen Vorsitzenden der "Deutsch-Sowjetischen Freundschaft" geführt und sind sehr zufrieden mit der Fülle an Material, die wir zusammengetragen haben. Die Transkriptionen der Interviews füllen einen ganzen Ordner und nun beginnt der schwierige Weg der Auswahl. Wir...
10.08.2012 14:43 (0 comments)
Here in Boyany and Arbureny we have several interesting interviews with the immediate victims of Soviet Repressions. The most fruitful conversation was the Talk with one old Romanian man, who endured two camps- one of them existed near Onega lake and the second one - in mining in the high mountains in Armenia. He survived and came back...
10.08.2012 14:33 (0 comments)
Yesterday, 09 August we visited two villages - Boyany and Arburany (founded in 1925). In the first of them we have visited the Memorial of victims of Soviet Regime atthe end of 40-th of XX century, when the local population lost many of its representatives. In Boyany most of prays were Romanians, they were in former times the...
08.08.2012 19:07 (0 comments)
Day 1. 31-th of July. We worked at the regional Archive. Day 2. The same task. Day 3. Maryan and Andrij went to village Toporivtsy, north to Chernivtsy. Marius went to the little town Hertsa, not far from borderland with Romania. Day 4. Archive. Day 5 (Saturday). Maryan and Andrij continued their discussions and interviews in...