The publication presents the 2019 edition of the Sound in the Silence project held at the Denkort Bunker Valentin memorial.
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.
The ENRS catalogue 2018-2019
Akteur im Stillen. Enno Meyer und die Aussöhnung mit Polen und Juden
The volume reflects on the Oldenburg intellectual Enno Meyer (1913–1996). Scientists, companions, former students and family members provide information about the work and biographical background of the teacher, who became the "Spiritus Rector" of the German-Polish Textbook Talks and led efforts to educate on the discrimination and extermination of Jews in the region of Oldenburg.
In addition to his early imprints in the small-town milieu of Oldenburg and the German-national youth and student unions of the 1920s and early 1930s, the volume also covers his drastic experiences as a soldier in the Second World War. The period after 1945 was a cautious recommencement for Meyer. As a history teacher, he dealt from then on intensively with the German-Polish and the German-Jewish relationships, bringing awareness of the crimes committed during the Nazi period to his students and readers.
Sound in the Silence 2018
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.
The ENRS catalogue 2017-2018
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.
The ENRS catalogue 2016-2017
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.