Go through our publications! At ENRS, we want to create a forum for exchange of opinions between historians, social studies scholars, and representatives of other disciplines engaged in memory studies. One of the ways of achieving this goal is by publishing our own annual journal "Remembrance and Solidarity Studies", as well as supporting external publications focused on remembrance and history of the 20th century in Europe.
Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War
Magazines of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Volume 9.
In the early years following the First World War (1918–1923), political, military, cultural, social and economic developments consolidated to a high degree in Eastern Europe. The volume focuses, on one hand, on the efforts to establish an international structure for peace and to set previously oppressed nations on the road to emancipation. On the other hand, it sheds light on political revisionism and territorial claims, as well as political violence that was effectively a continuation of the war in many places, albeit under modified conditions.
Edited by Piotr Juszkiewicz, Burkhard Olschowsky, Jan Rydel, Tobias Weger.
Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History. Issue no. 6. Violence in 20th-century European History
The issue is devoted to the diverse aspects of violence in 20th-century European history. It features two distinct contribution categories: studies and essays. The research papers showcase the complexity and multiple perspectives from which the phenomenon of violence can be studied. The second category is the synthesis of the most important lectures presented at the European Remembrance Symposium, 'Violence in 20th-century European history: commemorating, documenting, educating', Brussels, 2017.
Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age. A Summary of the Report
Totalitaryzm w epoce postmodernizmu
Enno Meyer: Leben und Wirken
The following five articles in German arose from the workshop and provide insight into Meyer’s life and career, his work in schools and his commitment to German-Polish understanding. They also describe the influences on him, and how he in turn influenced and inspired others. We hope that the portrayal a richly varied life given here will help shine new light on an honourable personality.
A more extended volume, with additional contributions on the life and work of Enno Meyers, will appear in 2019 due course in the BKGE series published by DeGruyter.
An English version of the publication is also available on-line.
Contents:
Burkhard Olschowsky: Enno Meyer – Lebensstationen
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz: Ein Wegbereiter der Verständigung
Wolfgang Jacobmeyer: Ohne Enno Meyer hätte es keine deutsch-polnischen Schulbuchgespräche gegeben
Thomas Strobel: Die Bedeutung Enno Meyers für die Gemeinsame Deutsch-Polnische Schulbuchkommission
Burkhard Olschowsky: Enno Meyer in der Erinnerung von Kollegen
Enno Meyer. His Life and Work
The following five articles arose from the workshop and provide insight into Meyer’s life and career, his work in schools and his commitment to German-Polish understanding. They also describe the influences on him, and how he in turn influenced and inspired others. We hope that the portrayal a richly varied life given here will help shine new light on an honourable personality.
A more extended volume, with additional contributions on the life and work of Enno Meyers, will appear in 2019 due course in the BKGE series published by DeGruyter.
A German version of the publication is also available on-line.
Contents:
Burkhard Olschowsky: Enno Meyer: His Life in Brief
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz: A Pioneer of Reconciliation
Wolfgang Jacobmeyer: Without Enno Meyer There Would Have Been No German-Polish Textbook Discussions
Thomas Strobel: How Significant was Enno Meyer to the Joint German-Polish Textbook Commission?
Burkhard Olschowsky: Enno Meyer as Remembered by His Colleagues
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, Vol 31, Issue 3, 2017
In its 31st volume (issue 3, 2017), 'East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures' features a special section on the Genealogies of Memory. Its guest editors are Ferenc Laczó and Joanna Wawrzyniak.
Articles included in the special section:
Memories of 1989 in Europe between Hope, Dismay, and Neglect - Ferenc Laczó, Joanna Wawrzyniak
1939 versus 1989—A Missed Opportunity to Create a European Lieu de Mémoire? - Aline Sierp
1989 in European Vernacular Memory - Lars Breuer, Anna Delius
A Tale of Two Revolutions: Hungary's 1956 and the Un-doing of 1989 - Victoria Harms
The "Children of Crisis": Making Sense of (Post)socialism and the End of Yugoslavia - Ljubica Spaskovska
Sound in the Silence 2017
Creative Agenda: Sound in the Silence
Creative Agenda to serve as foundation for Sound in the Silence. Written by Dan Wolf, published by MOTTE.
Sound in the Silence is a cross-cultural memorial project for young people. At historically challenging locations student work with art in order to understand how the past is connected to their questions in the present.
The project is carried out by ENRS and MOTTE.
Kollaboration, Widerstand und Vergeltung im Europa des Zweiten Weltkriegs
En: Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during the Second World War.
In Europe on Trial, acclaimed historian István Deák presents the comparative history of collaboration, retribution and resistance during the Second World War. Deák explores these three themes through the Western and Eastern European countries that suffered at the hands of German military occupation. The occupied countries had to face the question of whether to cooperate with their German occupiers, try to survive the war without any political involvement or risk their lives by opposing the Nazis. Foreword by Norman M. Naimark.
German version published by the ENRS in cooperation with Böhlau publishing house. Year: 2017.
European Remembrance Symposium, 2012-16
The publication features the most significant texts from the annual European Remembrance Symposium, for the period 2012-16.
Does a common European culture of remembrance exist? Is it possible to build a common historical narrative in 21st-century Europe? These two questions are at the centre of international discussions and debates between history scholars, history academics, researchers, and culture managers. They also provide the underpinning for the European Remembrance Symposium - one of the main events organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
Now selected lectures, discussions, and commentaries from Gdańsk, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Budapest have been assembled into one publication. It is available on-line and in print.
Sound in the Silence 2016
The publication presents the 2016 edition of the Sound in the Silence project exploring the significance of resistance. Young participants visited the former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they learend about the activities of the in-camp underground movement organized by the Polish soldier Witold Pilecki, as well as the escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, two Slovak Jews, authors of one of the original reports describing the situation in Auschwitz.
Brochures about the history of Slovakia 1939-1990
The Nation’s Memory Institute in Slovakia in cooperation with European Network Remembrance and Solidarity has prepared a series of brochures regarding the history of Slovakia 1939-1990. The brochures can be especially useful for teachers and students and for all those who seek basic knowledge about the totalitarian regimes and their consequences in Slovakia. The authors – historians and researchers from the Nation’s Memory Institute – chose a simple yet attractive form of leaflets with archival photos to describe the reality of limitations of human rights and religious freedoms under the Nazi and Communist regimes in the general and international context of the past century. The brochures were published in English and in Slovak language versions. For the Slovak version, please visit http://www.upn.gov.sk/sk/informacne-letaky-pre-studentov/
Dictatura lui Nicolae Ceausescu 1965-1989. Geniul Carpatilor
En: Dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu 1965-1989. The Genius of the Carpathian Mountains
The overall picture of the Ceaușescu dictatorship in Romania offered by Adam Burakowski presents the brutal machinery of oppression and dictator’s calculated relationships with the West in a broad historical-political framework. The Romanian translation of Dictatura lui Nicolae Ceaușescu 1965–1989. Geniul Carpatilor [Dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, 1965–1989. The genius of the Carpathian Mountains] was published in 2016 by Polirom, a publishing house, in cooperation with the ENRS. It is the first book published in Romania to use original documents of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bucharest.
Published by Polirom in cooperation with the ENRS. Year: 2016.
Nationalsozialismus und Regional-bewusstein im ostlichen Europa
En: Magazines of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Volume 8. National Socialism and Regional Awareness in Eastern Europe: Ideology, Power Struggle, and Inertia
The essays in this volume examine the relationship of National Socialist territorial and population policy to regional identities in the countries of Eastern Europe. A focus is placed on the role of “Auslandsdeutschen” (ethnic Germans in foreign countries), including their relationships to their nations of residence and to the Third Reich given their cultural ties and the exigencies of the Second World War.
Published in 2016 by European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Edited by Dr Burkhard Olschowsky, Ingo Loose.
Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History. Issue number 5. Holocaust/Shoah
Since there are a number of relevant periodicals dealing with Holocaust research, the ‘Call for Articles’ for this current issue, published in February 2015, requested a focus on issues that are particularly relevant to the work of the ENRS. The objective was to obtain current research contributions from different European countries and to address authors with regional and methodologically different approaches. The response to this call has been overwhelming. The fifteen contributions ultimately selected for publication in this issue were written by an international group of authors either in English or in their native language and then translated into English. They deal with Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary, or Central and Eastern Europe as a whole. The issue is divided into two main parts: I. Articles, which include academic research, and II. Miscellanea, which present both project reports and professional reflections. The Articles are subdivided into two further sections: ‘History – Studies on the Period’ focuses on the history of oppression and dispossession of Jews as well as the history and course of the murders in different local, regional and national contexts; and ‘Memory – Studies on Remembrance’ centres on post-1945 memory and remembrance, in which a variety of forms of public and private remembrance and memory preservation are considered, including literature, exhibitions, films and memorials. Special emphasis is placed here on the ways in which the subject was handled during the communist era and the question of comparability of the Holocaust / Shoah with the crimes of Stalinism.
Memory and Change in Europe. Eastern Perspective
The book was published as a result of the first editions of the "Genealogies of Memory" project, organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and coordinated by the editors of the volume, Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak.
In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
Published in 2015 by Berghahn Books.