22.05.2010 13:07 (0 Kommentare)
+++ Pressemitteilung 14. Januar 2013 +++ Veröffentlichung der Projektergebnisse steht kurz bevor Berlin, 14.01.2013 - Nach vielen Tagen harter Arbeit und manch schlafloser Nacht ist es endlich soweit. In wenigen Tagen werden wir das Ergebnis unseres Projektes „Polnische und sowjetische Geschichtspropaganda und ihr Einfluss auf das...
17.05.2010 20:46 (1 Kommentare)
Here is an article, published on 15 May 2010 in the biggest Bosnia and Herzegovina daily newspaper “Oslobodjenje”. Article was written by one of our project participants: Aleksandra Cholewa-Domanagic. Article is presenting “Foundation EVZ”, and is speaking about goals, methods and general idea of our project: “The town of...
17.05.2010 10:14 (0 Kommentare)
Nach einer langen Vorbereitungsphase werden wir unsere erste Feldforschungsarbeit durchführen und uns in der Stadt Perm und Umgebung mit ehemaligen Deportierten treffen. Hier unsere erste Pressemitteilung: http://volonter59.ru/index.php?category=1&id=273
16.05.2010 22:36 (0 Kommentare)
As you can see in the picture, we got surprising visit from his excellence Greek ambassador Mr. Konstantinos Kokossis. Mr. Ambassador, personally interested in Greek refugees and repatriates, didn't only bring up another perspective into our discussion but also offered our project a patronage of the Greek embassy in Prague. Thanks!...
16.05.2010 21:41 (0 Kommentare)
Couple weeks of preparations passed again so here we are with some fresh news... Thanks to Efi Maniatti and her "Greek crash course" some of us know slightly more Greek vocabularies than "gyros" or "ouzo". That, of course doesn't apply for the natives or students from our group who went through this with Mrs. Maniatti during her Greek...
16.05.2010 13:49 (0 Kommentare)
Nach vier Tagen in Moskau mit starken Eindruecken der Feierlichkeiten zum 65.Jahrestag des Sieges am 9.Mai, und ersten Annaeherungen an die russische Erinnerungskultur, sind wir nach zwei Tagen Zugfahrt im Polargebiet angekommen. Vorkuta beeindruckt durch seine besondere Stadtgeschichte, das rauhe Klima und die dennoch warmherzigen Menschen....
16.05.2010 00:00 (0 Kommentare)
There are two days in a year when Chernobyl area, which is regularly not allowed to enter since the nuclear disaster of 1986, is open for admittance. It happens thanks to traditional post-Easter memorial days (called “Hrobki” that means “Little tombs” in Ukrainian) when people are allowed to attend their ancestors’ graves. In...
15.05.2010 20:29 (0 Kommentare)
"Sniatyn Dis/Continued: Memory of Place and Displaced Memories in Official Representations an Individual Experiences" Project has started for real! The Polish part of the team shortened the full name of the project into "Operacja Sniatyn" what literally means "Sniatyn Operation". From now on for your and our convenience the shortened form...
11.05.2010 21:45 (0 Kommentare)
I have been making the press release to our project for the last two weeks. First of all, I contemplated about a general idea of the press-release. Obviously, I wanted to create a little bit more than an ordinary and official statement about our project. I felt I needed to tell a story. Avoiding fluff, embellishments, and exaggerations, I was...
11.05.2010 14:42 (0 Kommentare)
Um sich aus einem europäischen Blickwinkel heraus an die Geschichte der Deportationen erinnern zu können, sollen Zeitzeugen in den Mittelpunkt gestellt werden. Der praktische Teil des Projekts kommt langsam in Schwung: Interviews mit Betroffenen Russen sowie Polen werden daher im Mai und Juni durchgeführt werden . Um ein besseres...
11.05.2010 00:00 (0 Kommentare)
Dear readers, a final press-release (in the form an interview) in which I summed up the outcomes of our project turned out to be become a curious completion of the work. You may look through it here: http://www.hse.spb.ru/owneyes/material.php?id=1293533942 If you don't know Russian I'll quote the most interesting passage (to my...
10.05.2010 23:17 (0 Kommentare)
We have already written the final version of the project's Methods paper. It's available on this web-page. In a few days we will give information about the project press-release in Belarus, it was already published in two newspapers.
10.05.2010 21:58 (0 Kommentare)
We got a new Blog: http://reverse10060.wordpress.com/ is our new home from now on, we will publish their most of our stories, pictures, news, links, ... Visit and comment!
06.05.2010 21:06 (0 Kommentare)
10-11 May 2010 – first trip to Bolesławiec (Karolina, Jakub); appointments in cultural institutions (The Cultural Center of Boleslawiec, Regional Museum, Town Hall, local newspaper office); collecting the list of interviewees 10-14 May 2010 – Sarajevo and Prnjavor (Aleksandra); collecting the list of interviewees; three interviews in...
05.05.2010 14:39 (1 Kommentare)
After having located a whole community of former inhabitants ofNieznajowa in Kalush, Western Ukraine, we travelled there again in late April and were able to conduct a first series of interviews which gave us a first inside to the individual fates of the people and the village asa whole.We spoke to Paraskievia Hwalyk (*1929), Anna...
05.05.2010 10:45 (0 Kommentare)
Yesterday our student seminar in Krzyzowa ended. The 12 international students and our team – except Dominik – went home after 10 days full of inspiring work, discussions and personal encounters. Therefore the surroundings of the Krzyzowa Foundation in Lower Silesia's beautiful spring landscape were just perfect. On Sunday, May...
29.04.2010 17:02 (0 Kommentare)
Our international students team (5 coming from Israel, 3 from Poland, 4 from Germany) will be working until May 3rd with our team on the issue of the post-war Jewish yishuv in Reichenbach/Dzierzoniów in Lower Silesia. The rich program of our workshop which began on April 23rd included until today mostly conducting interviews with witnesses...
27.04.2010 22:38 (0 Kommentare)
Following on from our meeting in Oder, Dmitry, Sveta and I met in St Petersburg to discuss in more detail the division of responsibility on the project and our individual timetables. Speaking with Anna through skype, we decided that it made more sense for the Russian-based colleagues to carry out the interview work over the next months while...
27.04.2010 13:53 (0 Kommentare)
Yesterday we hosted in Warsaw director of our partner insitiution from Ukraine: History and Culture Museum of Bukovynian Jews. Together with Anna Ciałowicz we were in Warsaw Nożyk Synagogue and in office of Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
27.04.2010 13:26 (0 Kommentare)
Anna Ciałowicz has translated from yiddish into polish an ethnographical material collected by Szimon Ansky during his expedition in Bukovina. This is the first time, when this material is translated into ukrainian language. Війна знищила дуже багато цінних пам'яток єврейської культури,...
27.04.2010 11:23 (0 Kommentare)
Der Dokumentarfilm „Hinterland“ handelt von Russlanddeutschen, die aus der Wolgaregion nach Deutschland gezogen sind. Während sie in Russland oft als Faschisten diffamiert wurden, beschimpfte man sie in Deutschland als Russen. Die Integration findet in schwierigen sozialen Umständen statt, da finanzielle Probleme und eine unsichere...
27.04.2010 09:56 (0 Kommentare)
From the 23rd till 27th of April our team held another meeting in order to plan future actions. This time we met in Gdańsk and Toruń. Unexpectedly our international seminar was inspected by the secret emissary of the Institute for Applied History mister Maarten Geuzendam. However, our conduct appeared irreproachable to him and so...
25.04.2010 14:38 (0 Kommentare)
However resettlements to Transnistria is a part of tragic fate of Bessarabian Jews some of them were evacuated to Central Asia by Soviet government at the beginning of Great Patriotic War. Interviewing old Jewish inhabitants of Chisinau in Iulia Tucinskaia company (director of Hillel in Chisinau) is an unique opportunity to make comparative...
23.04.2010 13:12 (0 Kommentare)
Am 12. und 13.April fand in Dresden das vorbereitende Blockseminar statt. Auf diesem Seminar lernten sich die Studierenden aus Dresden (Agnes, Judith, Marcus, Sabine) und die Projektleiter kennen. Am ersten Seminartag wurden theoretische Grundlagen und historische Hintergründe diskutiert, bevor wir uns am zweiten Tag im Dresdner...
23.04.2010 12:55 (0 Kommentare)
We are continuing looking for former forced laborers from Ukraine who would like to share their knowledge and memories with us. In Ukrainian language information here http://h.ua/story/268141/. Were also contacted several newspapers in order to print this information in Kiev.
20.04.2010 20:26 (0 Kommentare)
It's been another two weeks since we have posted our last note but we haven't grown lazy! As the main work is supposed to be done during this summer semester, our group is almost finished with the first round of preparations – press reports are done, basic list of Greeks and Slav Macedonians and two more meetings have taken place. Thanks...
19.04.2010 11:38 (0 Kommentare)
Alina visited Jugów to prepare the place for our July activities. The visit was very nice and effective. Our guesthouse, named "Sowi Dwor" (Owl Court), proved to be not only very comfortable place for living and working, but also very interesting historical builging. About 100 years old mountain pension was headquarters of Hitlerjugend...
19.04.2010 09:53 (0 Kommentare)
Well known Polish journal "Gazeta Wyborcza" published the article about our project in its local edition. Since the plane crash of the president's airplane, mourning, the funeral and the Polish-Russian relationship were the news No. 1 for the last week, "Wyborcza" decided to link the project with that. Thus we got to the page 2 of the local...
18.04.2010 21:33 (0 Kommentare)
This weekend Andrzej and Jakub have visited remains of the Torun's Soviet military base. It was divided into two parts. One was a firing ground (photo), the other one was the housing estate where the soldiers lived. Currently the firing ground is planed to be turned into a residential district. As to former houses of the Soviet unit, some are...
18.04.2010 11:40 (0 Kommentare)
Here is published article of director of our partner organisation from Ukraine History and Culture Museum of Bukovynian Jews, Mr Mykola Kushnir. http://www.ji.lviv.ua/n56texts/kushnir2.htm
17.04.2010 23:40 (0 Kommentare)
Here is the introduction to book of Abraham Rechtman "Zichrojnes fun etnografiszer ekspedycie" ("Reminiscences from ethnographic expedition") Jewish legends gathered by the ethnographic expedition of An-ski just at the beginning of present century, when Jewish lifestyle begun to change its own forms, get rid of the old and accept brand...
16.04.2010 15:08 (1 Kommentare)
Nasza pierwsza wspólna wyprawa za nami.17.03.2010 początek, 24.03.2010 koniec: Lipsk, Wrocław, Opole, Nowica (Beskid Niski), Dukla, Krywe, Hulskie (Bieszczady). Pierwsza stacja: Stowarzyszenie Magurycz, które zajmuje się opieką i restauracją obiektów sepulkralnych: kapliczek, grobów z I i II Wojny Światowej....
15.04.2010 14:43 (0 Kommentare)
PRESSEMITTEILUNG Von Hulskie nach Zaleszczyki - Polnische Künstlerin, ukrainische Literaturfachfrau und deutscher Journalist reisen auf den Spuren von Flucht und Vertreibung in Galizien Die polnische Künstlerin Kata Adamek, die ukrainische Literaturexpertin Olena Schkwarok und der deutsche Journalist Robert Schimke werden in...
15.04.2010 09:39 (0 Kommentare)
Countdown is on and here is our press release. We have a german and a polish version and it has already been sent to some journalists we know or contacted beforehand. We still spread it further. Pressemitteilung (poniżej po polsku) Internationales Seminar über jüdisches Leben in Dzierżoniów nach dem Zweiten...
15.04.2010 09:20 (0 Kommentare)
Unsere erste Recherchereise liegt hinter uns. Am 17.3. ging es los, am 24.3. waren wir zurück: Leipzig, Breslau, Opole, Nowica (Beskid Niski), Dukla, Krywe, Hulskie (Bieszczady). Erste Station: Stiftung Magurycz. Sie kümmert sich um die Pflege und die Restauration von historischen Gräbern. Szymon Modrzejewski von der Stiftung...
14.04.2010 18:39 (0 Kommentare)
Wir haben uns entschieden, nach Abschluss der Literaturrecherchen und vor Beginn der Forschungsreise, das gesammelte Wissen und die geschichtlichen Darstellungen gleich mit Experten aus den Ländern zu diskutieren und reflektieren, um für die Gespräche vor Ort gut gewappnet zu sein. Dazu führen wir vom 01. bis 04. Juni 2010 in...
14.04.2010 18:36 (0 Kommentare)
Петлюра, Piłsudski, Скоропадський, Franz Joseph und Wilhem II, Katyn und Смоленск. Unsere Recherchen zur Geschichte der Europastraße 40 binden immer mehr Ebenen aneinander: historische Ereignisse von weltpolitischer Bedeutung mit lokalen Geschichten, Hoffnung und Furcht, Aufbruch und Vertreibung,...
14.04.2010 09:24 (0 Kommentare)
As the fieldwork grows closer in our date books, our meeting on March 31 focused more on the practical aspects of oral history research. Contrary to what may be expected, oral history is not a chase after “The Truth” with a little help of narrator's memories. What matters most is the narrator himself: his individual story, his personal...
09.04.2010 17:41 (1 Kommentare)
One month after the Meeting upon Oder we have reworked our method paper, prepared Polish version of the press release and arranged team meeting in Gdansk for the end of April. I have also met a person in Toruń who used to traffic with Soviet soldiers in military uniforms. The result of such a deal I present on the photograph. He told me...
07.04.2010 21:40 (0 Kommentare)
...I will arrive on this beautiful railway station. It used to be really nice place before the war, with the first class restaurant and delicious coffee... Well, the place has changed. The people have changed. I'm one of these who arrived already in the middle of the change and I feel that I owe something to those who are no longer there. As...
05.04.2010 17:11 (1 Kommentare)
The meeting at the Oder gave us the possibility to really start planning the project and get some useful advice for the details of carrying it out in the right way. Anna and I enjoyed it very much and we tried to be all the more present as the male part of our team didn't make it to this meeting. Luckily three of us had met in Warsaw just...
03.04.2010 14:58 (1 Kommentare)
Bevor sich unser internationales Projektteam am 8.Mai endlich in Moskau treffen wird, um die Exkursion zu beginnen und in den Zug nach Vorkuta zu steigen, bedarf es noch unzähligen Vorbereitungen. Dazu gehören vor allem die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung mit Erinnerungskulturen und dem historischen Hintergrund unserer beiden...
31.03.2010 23:59 (0 Kommentare)
In the past few weeks, since our weekly Wednesday team meetings have begun, we have gone through a couple of introductions to our research topic "Sixty Years After. Memory of Greek Civil War Refugees in Czechoslovakia, 1949-2009." With Greek language basics or Methods of Oral History still ahead us, we have already discovered much about Greek...
29.03.2010 17:48 (0 Kommentare)
Der Start des Projekts: Ein Open Call, mit dem wir die deutschen Teilnehmer für unsere Recherche-Exkursion gewinnen wollen. Download: www.balkanbiro.de/downloads/call.pdf
29.03.2010 14:37 (0 Kommentare)
kurzer Text und Fotos zu unserer Präsentation der Arbeitsergebnisse in Hamburg und zur Projektpräsentation in der Gedenkstätte Mauthausen
29.03.2010 08:39 (0 Kommentare)
Yesterday, it became possible to make a short one-day trip to Kalush. Ms. Mariya Parylo, Head of "Lemkovyna" organization, organized a meeting with four Lemkos from Nieznajowa and we had a chance to start a conversation about their village and their deportation. Here are few important informations: 1. Nieznajowa village ceased to exist after...
28.03.2010 18:31 (0 Kommentare)
On March 3-7, 2010, the "Sixty Years After. Memory of Greek Civil War Refugees in Czechoslovakia, 1949-2009" project coordinators Katerina Kralova of the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Eleni Paschaloudi of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of...
23.03.2010 19:21 (2 Kommentare)
March, 2010 Members of international German-Polish-Ukrainian team...
18.03.2010 00:23 (0 Kommentare)
Once more three of the four of us could meet, this time it has been (on the picture from left to right) Rafael Blau, Elzbieta Opilowska and Dominik Kretschmann and we met in the Wrocław University Centre for the Culture and Languages of the Jews (http://www.judaistyka.uni.wroc.pl/judaistyka/index.php), where Joanna Lisek (yes, she is the...
15.03.2010 00:00 (0 Kommentare)
We already received a number of applications and the whole week long we are waiting for more to come. So if someone reading this knows someone who could be interested - don't hesitate, just forward our Call. (Or even better, apply Yourself!) Here is our call: CfA: International Seminar for Students (deutsche Version weiter...