Remembrance in Hungary
And it makes a Hungarian-history-deficiency like myself wonder: what tragedy has this country gone through to justify the call for such sentiments and how are its people remembering it? …
Posts by Julia Mattstedt
Elisa Kaurala, intern from Finland
For four weeks in May, the office of Citizens’ was filled with joy and heat of the Berlin summer! A new season brings a new face to our Berlin headquarters…
How I learned to love the Euro
As an enthusiastic pro-European I have always valued EU’s integration, enlargement and overall development as a political entity that strives for equity, solidarity, justice and mutual respect at international level.…
Expert’s workshop visited us
Participants of the seminar “Europe in Action”, which took place in Berlin on 3 – 8 Juni, visited us on 4 June in our office. All of them were active…
Vilnius Report
THURSDAY, May 17th The programme started with getting to know and remember one another. The participants gathered in the Artoteka room, which was used as a base for the workshop.…
Vergangenheit formt Zukunft
“Ich habe das Gefühl bekommen, das Thema ist noch heute sehr schwer. Wie auch in anderen Ländern ist es für Leute in Deutschland noch immer tabu, über die Vergangenheit zu…
Budapest Conclusions
1. The Remembrance of Stalinism appears to be predominant, compared to remembering Fascism, which seems rather marginalized. 2. Despite the criticism towards the historical sites we examined, they have supplied…
HWSOP: Conclusions in Budapest
1) The Remembrance of Stalinism appears to be predominant, compared to remembering Fascism, which seems rather marginalized. 2) There are different discourses with different dominances among the narratives of the…
Remembrance of Stalinism
Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen is the former East German Ministry of State Security (MfS), or ‘Stasi’, and has been a Memorial since 1994. Following the unification of the two German states, the…
Remembrance of Fascism
The second day we started by outlining our expectations for the project. Each participant was given different colored pieces of paper and everyone wrote their expectations, hopes and fears for…