European Network Remembrance and Solidarity has emerged as an initiative of four countries: Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia aimed at broadening knowledge on Europe’s history in the 20th Century, in particular on totalitarian regimes, its victims and consequences that last until now.
Venue and date: Diplomatische Akademie Wien, 27 September 2012
Organizers: Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in cooperation with Otto von Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Verein zur Förderung der Forschung von Konflikten und Kriegen
World War II ended in the occupation of Austria and Germany. During the occupation, strict rules were implemented to limit fraternization and violence against the occupied. Yet, these rules were often broken as soldiers fraternized with the female population or worse, used violence again women. Results of these actions, brought about a new generation of children, whose fathers were members of armed forces of a foreign power and the resulting child was labeled “a child of the enemy”.
"Anamneses": a history festival for historians, writers, artists, students and academics concerned with 20th century European history. The first International Historical Festival in Poland is taking place in Wrocław from 12th to 16th May, during which workshops, films screenings, debates, and concerts will take place. The focus during the festival is placed on events from the tragic history of the Eastern Europe, which Timothy Snyder calls “Bloodlands”, where due to two totalitarian regimes, communists and national-socialists, 14 million peoples have been murdered in a mass genocide.
From Tuesday, 29th May to Monday, 4th June in Swedish Riksdag there will be an exhibition of polish photographer - Mikołaj Grynberg - 'Auschwitz. What am I doing here?'. The exhibition is a part of a project which includes also: an album, an educational program and web site. The project bases on photographs - unclear, blurred black and white portraits of visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Place and colorful photographs of the former nazi concentration camp. The exhibition consists also of the audio installation - conversations between the artist and Museum's visitors.
18th-20th April 2012, Berlin, Embassy of the Slovak Republic, Hildebrandstraße 25, 10785 Berlin
The conference will focus on cultural, political and social factors important in the processes of the formation of identities as well as current identity discourses with their regional codes during national socialist dictatorship, under communist regimes and facing the changes after 1989. Participants of the conference will have a chance to compare processes happening throughout 20th century in such regions of Central and Eastern Europe as: Pomerania, Upper Silesia, Spis, Bukovina, Galicia, Dobruja or Kashubia.
The International Academic Conference The world presented in the films of Andrzej 
Munk vs. contemporary definitions of totalitarianism will be held in Cracow this week under the partonage of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Conference is organized by Department of Contemporary Culture, Jesuit University Ignatianum and will explore the meaning of totalitarism in Munk's cinematohraphy.
The conference is part of the Ignatian Prayers for the Deceased series, which recalls – and at the same time reinterprets – the output of prominent Polish and international creative artists, of merit to Polish culture. The main subject of the March session (postponed from November) is the least explored aspects of the works of the outstanding film director Andrzej Munk (1921-1961), as they relate to his understanding of totalitarianism. Munk's film output is approached as an individual, and at the same time - generational, phenomenon.
In 2011the Polish Parliament established a new national day, the Day of Remembrance of the “Cursed Soldiers”. It is celebrated on 1st of March, that is the anniversary of execution of seven officers of the organization “Wolność i 
Niepodległość” (“Freedom and Independence”) in a prison in Warsaw. This national day commemorates members of the independence underground who in 1945 (and partially even in 1944) started an armed struggle against the communist regime in Poland and its Soviet patrons. This particular term “cursed soldiers” shows that those, who were the most persistent defenders of the Polish right to self-determination, were until 1989 described as villains and presented in media and in school curricula as deplorable reactionaries and criminals. The fight against them was also an important component of the “founding myth” upon which the communist regime in Poland was based.
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