Wroclaw and Falstad Will Not Forget! Polish and Norwegian Standpoint on Totalitarianisms. Educational, Research, Exhibition, Publishing and Popularizing Activities about the Different Experiences of Wroclaw and Falstad of the Nazi and Stalinist Totalitari
History Centre Zajezdnia, Wrocław ·Poland
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">OBJECTIVE: </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The goal of the project is to organize a number of events in order to show the historical truth about victims of totalitarianism. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">EVENTS: </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The project will consist of the following components:</span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The first component of the project will consist in the preparation of the exhibition "Golgotha of the East" on the site of the existing Memorial Chamber.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The second component - "Wroclaw remembers" - will be based on workshops organized for NGOs with a view to develop a model of events and activities.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The third component - research and publishing activities.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The fourth component is to develop a mobile application "Wroclaw remembers". Based on the success of the award-winning "Being Polish in Breslau" application, as well as on the basis of research work, a modern tool will be developed with a view to allow virtual (though mapped to paths existing in reality) exploration of places of remembrance of persons deported to Siberia, people repressed by the Third Reich, the pre-war Polish community in Wroclaw, and other thematically similar groups. The target group will be expanded to include English and German language audience.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The component "I tell about Wroclaw" will invite Witnesses of History to participate in workshops on their ability to speak out, especially on aspects of their traumatic experiences.</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The component "Wroclaw cemeteries - the city memory" will include: archival queries and field research; drawing up the register of resting places of famous or distinguished persons and veterans (according to the adopted methodological assumptions); development of a dedicated website with a multifunctional multi-search engine for graves and information about the deceased; preparation of biographies of persons included in the register and collection of iconographic material; proposals of sightseeing ...</span></span></li> </ul>
Bilateral cooperation results
The Norwegian partner - Centrum Falstad - organized a study visit to Norway for 11 people from the Project Team. (workshops, tours, discussion panels); completed the work research on Polish prisoners in Falstad and created an educational tool regarding Polish-Norwegian threads in the Falstad camp. Thanks to visits by specialists from Falstad in Poland, he made it possible exchange of experiences and sharing knowledge in the field of running cultural institutions and educational methods, mainly in the aspect of transmitting difficult history to young people and children.
Project partners
- Falstad Centre Donor project partner· Norway
- Siberian Deportees Remembrance Association Project partner· Poland
- Association of Siberian Deportees Branch Wroclaw Project partner· Poland
- The Association of the Polish Victims of the Third Reich, Branch in Wroclaw Project partner· Poland
- ‘Lower Silesian Family of Katyn’ Association in Wroclaw Project partner· Poland
- Warsaw Province Religious House of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redemptor in Wroclaw Project partner· Poland
- Silesian Genealogical Society in Wroclaw Project partner· Poland
- Wroclaw Lovers Association Project partner· Poland
- Oder-Neman Association Project partner· Poland