Back from the track...

Von den Bieszczady nach Zaleszczyki -...

02.09.2010 20:22 (0 Kommentare)

It is already more than a week ago that we finished our second project trip. Our plans to go on the path again in May was cancelled due to the severe flood in southern Poland at that time. So we returned in August: now we saw the former Bojko villages Krywe and Hulskie again - but no more traces of house foundation ruins - everywhere grass,...

Vorkut[a]Lag[er]

VorkutLag / Vorkuta – Bergbaustadt in...

28.08.2010 15:07 (0 Kommentare)

  Öffentliche Abschlussveranstaltung in Dresden   Am 28.Juli fand in der „Blauen Fabrik" in Dresden die öffentliche Abschlussveranstaltung statt, auf der sich ca. 70 BesucherInnen über das Projekt informierten, über Intentionen und Hintergründe, über Ergebnisse, über Erfahrungen, und über Berichte aus der russischen...

«Every nation considers its own culture to be the best one; the problems begin when somebody denies ability of another nation to have the same right» (Interview with Prof. Zoellick Pinhasik)

Offizielles Erinnern der...

23.08.2010 23:17 (0 Kommentare)

Prof. Zoellick Pinhasik: Expert in Judaism, researcher of the Jewish history and culture in the Eastern Europe in the "Jewish Heritage Society"; Professor, PhD, Deputy of dean of the «International relations department» in the «Belarusian State University»        - Good morning, Zoellick Moiseevich. We would like to...

The Abandoned Violin

Atome der Erinnerung: Auf den Spuren...

10.08.2010 13:20 (0 Kommentare)

In spite of the flood in Kiev region that turned our car into amphibian, we have managed to arrive to 82 y.o. Bliuma Yankelevna, living in the small town Boryspil, outskirts of Kiev. We could hardly recognize the old women we met at the cemetery last month in the lady dressed, as it was her birthday party,  who opened the...

Встреча жарким летним днем

Vom Pflug zum Fabrikhochofen: Auf den...

08.08.2010 17:14 (0 Kommentare)

Сегодня, 8 августа, несмотря на смог, который добрался и до Петербурга, и жару наша дружная команда наконец собралась в полном составе. Постановка спектакля, основой которого станут устные...

A GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Sniatyn: (Dis-)kontinuierliche...

01.08.2010 13:02 (0 Kommentare)

In the middle of May we met in a garden of house situated in a marvelous district of Warsaw called Zoliborz. We focused on folk religiosity and magico-religious practises in everyday life. Tomek and Rafal had volunteered for the presentation on this issue. It was partly based on a text about traditional medicine in villages, which you can...

Rivne - Dubno - Brody

Die Europastraße E40 als...

28.07.2010 00:50 (0 Kommentare)

Wir haben Rivne den Ruecken gekehrt, um zunaechst in Dubno Station zu machen. Ab jetzt fahren wir mit Julia weiter, einer Lehrerin aus dem Rivnensker Lyzeum, die das Forschungsprojekt zur Geschichte der VIA REGIA zwischen 1900 und 1945 mit begleitet und waehrend der Reise zu uebersetzt. Wir befinden uns momentan mitten in den...

Rivne: Kurzblog und ukrainische Internetcafes

Die Europastraße E40 als...

28.07.2010 00:41 (0 Kommentare)

Wie schoen, ein fuer den Blog uninteressantes Wochenende, dass mir die Chance gibt, wieder auf den aktuellen Stand zu kommen. Wir sitzen an beiden Tagen in Rivne und arbeiten die gesammelten Informationen auf. Da wir nur einen Laptop mitgenommen haben, aber parallel arbeiten muessen - Bilder und Objekte anlegen und Charakteristiken...

Rivne – Dubno - Rivne

Die Europastraße E40 als...

28.07.2010 00:32 (0 Kommentare)

  Heute fahren wir nach Dubno. Der Bürgermeister dort hat für uns einen Plan erarbeitet, der uns den ganzen Tag auf Trab halten soll. Schloss: 40 min, St. Ilija Kirche: 20 min, Fort Tarakaniv: 60 min, Mittagessen: 40 min, Gespräch im Rathaus: 60 min, etc.. Hat natürlich überhaupt nicht funktioniert, weil wir immer zu viele Fragen...

Wolodymyr Wolhynski – Rivne: 180 km

Die Europastraße E40 als...

28.07.2010 00:18 (0 Kommentare)

Es ist Residenzwechsel - vom Rajon, also der Region Wolhynska nach Rivnenska und dort in die Gebietshauptstadt Rivne. Nur 180 km. In Deutschland brauchen wir dafür 1,5 Stunden, heute 6. Aber aus mehreren Gründen. Zunächst muss ich gestehen, dass wir ein wenig zu vertrauensselig in die Allwissenheit der Technik waren. Nach Eingeben der...

In the middle of the project

Erinnerung und Vergessen. Jugów...

27.07.2010 11:26 (0 Kommentare)

Time flows quickly and a week passed after we had arrived to Jugow and started our project Memory and Oblivion. Everyone has proved to be greatly involved into the activity and is doing her best to contribute to it. For the last week our team has had 10 interviews with more than 20 hours of video and audio records. We have spoken to dozens...

media coverage

Ein vergessenes NS-Konzentrationslager...

23.07.2010 00:00 (0 Kommentare)

Yesterday a report about our project was broadcasted by the serbian program of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)!

2nd day of the introductory seminar

Ein vergessenes NS-Konzentrationslager...

21.07.2010 23:50 (0 Kommentare)

My name is Bastian, I am studying Eastern European History and Journalism in Giessen. On Monday we had a meeting with the whole group at the cultural center REX. At the beginning everybody told about his impressions after visiting the area of the camp the day before. We also talked about our special interest and formed groups for the...

New Photo Gallery!!!

Die Stadt Bolesławiec als...

20.07.2010 00:00 (0 Kommentare)

We would like to present some more photos from our project expeditions and researches - here is a link: http://picasaweb.google.pl/Boleslawiec2010 We're going to add new photos soon!

Our crew in BiH

Die Stadt Bolesławiec als...

15.07.2010 22:08 (1 Kommentare)

Trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina / June 2010

Die Stadt Bolesławiec als...

14.07.2010 13:59 (0 Kommentare)

Field trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 2010.    At the beginning of June, 3 members of our crew – Karolina Zlobecka, Kuba Galeziowski and Aleksandra Cholewa-Domanagic met in Sarajevo, capital city of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Together we went for a journey  - following traces of Polish minority, which used to live in...

link to the project

Vom Pflug zum Fabrikhochofen: Auf den...

06.07.2010 14:39 (1 Kommentare)

A link to our project has been posted on the National Identities in Russia from 1961 project website: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/nationalism/links.htm This project brings together Russian and British scholars working on the theme of national identities, traditions, and deterritorialization in Russia after 1961. It also publishes a...

Our project is in progress

Der NS-Völkermord an den Roma –...

29.06.2010 15:21 (0 Kommentare)

We have finally selected 8 participants in Russia for our project. All of them are Roma students from different Universities of St. Petersburg, Pskov, and Smolensk. One of the students, Maria Belova has already interviewed Praskoviya Aleksandrovna Belova, 81 year old woman from Aleksandrovka village of Smolensk region. Praskoviya...

Russian and English version of the project press-release

Offizielles Erinnern der...

29.06.2010 12:57 (0 Kommentare)

   This is the original variant of our project press-release. It's text is a bit different in different publication, but the key ideas are the same.   "Память о братьях Бельских в Беларуси, Польше и Израиле"    Проект посвященной памяти об...

From London with love

Bosnische Erinnerungspfade

28.06.2010 18:17 (1 Kommentare)

In Poland a Bosnian community is invisible. Therefore I decided to conquer the British Islands. I spent a week in London, where a lot happened to surprise me. Firstly, tea is not a national good here anymore (pity), secondly, one can spend in the underground a whole day not meeting the people he knows (cool!) and last but not least, the...

Bunzlau in Siegburg

Die Stadt Bolesławiec als...

23.06.2010 11:28 (1 Kommentare)

  Arrival to Siegburg for reunion association Bundesheimatgruppe Bunzlau zu Siegburg 22.-24.06 was opportunity to familiarize with "live memory" former inhabitants of Bolesławiec and about prewar city, displacement process and effort which was put in building new existence in postwar Germany. One example of importance of Bolesławiec...

Research in Bolesławiec

Die Stadt Bolesławiec als...

21.06.2010 21:57 (4 Kommentare)

During days from 26th to 30th of May we start up "polish stage" of our project. Few days expedition we began from familiarize with documents about arrival Polish from former Yugoslavia, which now are located in State Archive in Wroclaw. The most interesting materials we decided to copy, to have chance to use them during future workshops. In...

Press release

Diskurs interner und externer...

15.06.2010 16:29 (0 Kommentare)

We published press release on Jewish portal: http://www.jewish.org.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3323%3Apami-o-kulturze-chasydzkiej-na-bukowinie&catid=26%3Anewsy&Itemid=86&lang=pl

GO-GETTERS

Sniatyn: (Dis-)kontinuierliche...

12.06.2010 22:16 (1 Kommentare)

At the beginning of May we released news about our project at the Institute of Ethnology website http://www.etnologia.uw.edu.pl/etno/glowna (for English version see http://etnologia.uw.edu.pl/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/english/homepage) as well as at the Polish Academy of Scince site (http://test.ihpan.edu.pl/index.php?id=427). Thus more people got...