Publications

Sofia Di Filippo
Italy

Emil and Leon Superson
Poland/Norway

This story is written together by Emil, aged 10, and Leon, nearly 9.

It came about as a result of a conversation between the boys and their grandmother - the daughter of Marianna in the story.

“Today, our Grandmother told us about the Second World War memories of our Great-Grandmother Marianna.

Great-Grandmother was born in a small village called Kuźniaki, next to Perzowa Góra mountain, on the edge of the Puszcza Świętokrzyska great forest. Great-Grandmother didn’t often talk about the war or the hardships of life after it. She did, however, remember the beginning. On the 1st of September, 16 days before her eighth birthday, the radio announced that the German Reich’s troops had entered Poland. She didn’t understand what that meant, but she knew something bad was happening.

She said that, along with the other villagers, they would flee into the forest at night. People hid in the woods and lived there. They couldn’t always light a fire, even if it was cold, for fear of being found. Partisans also hid in the forests.

There was hunger. The Germans took food and animals – cows, chickens, horses – and then they burned down homes. They took children and shot people. They took her mother and older sister and sent them to the Reich for forced labour. At that time, no one knew if or when they would return. People could also be sent to a concentration camp.

Great-Grandmother remembered how heavy fighting took place in the village of Huciska, just beyond Perzowa Góra mountain.

Great-Grandmother didn’t go to school because the family only had one pair of shoes for all the children to share.”

Emilia Połońska
Poland

Andreea Bolborici
Romania

Kashfia Dali
Germany

Patrycja Śliwa
Poland

Noemi Kovacs
Germany

The publication presents the 2024 catalogue of the exhibition 'Between Life and Death. Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust.'

The publication presents the edition of the project Sound in the Silence in Jasenovac, Croatia.

The project is co-financed by the European Union.

The publication presents the edition of the project Sound in the Silence at the House of the Wannsee Conference, Germany.

The project is co-financed by the European Union.

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe. Such an investigation is all the more timely as the 1990s are increasingly looked to for answers explaining the populist and nationalist turn across the globe.
The volume shows how the key processes that impacted many lives across the social spectrum in Eastern Europe, such as deindustrialization, privatization, restitution and abrupt social reorganization, are collectively remembered across society today and how memory narratives of the 1990s contribute to current identities and political climate. This volume establishes the memory of economic transformation as a research focus in its own right. It investigates different levels of memory, from the national through the local to the cultural, analysing key myths of the transformation, giving special recognition to the social space and vernacular memories of the transformation period and reflecting on how the changes of the 1990s are mediated in cultural representations.

Given the book’s interdisciplinary scope that covers several fields, it will prove to be of interest to those working in memory studies, contemporary history, sociology, East European area studies and literary and film studies. It will also serve as a significant point of reference for those researching the interdisciplinary and rapidly expanding field of transformation studies and thus is an invaluable source across different fields.

Editors:

Joanna Wawrzyniak is associate professor in sociology and director of the Center for Research on Social Memory at the University of Warsaw. She is vice chair of the EU COST Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change.

The publication presents the edition of the project Sound in the Silence at the Mauthausen and Gusen Memorial Sites, Austria.

The project took place in 08-16.10.2022 and is co-financed by the European Union.

The publication presents the edition of the project Sound in the Silence at the Ninth Fort Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The project took place in 28.09-05.10.2022 and was co-financed by the European Union.