The project “Power of Personal Stories in Confronting Oblivion (PPSCO)” aims to strengthen the practices of remembrance of the Holocaust and other genocides committed during the Second World War, in the partner countries and by extension in other countries of the European Union. The year 2025 is particularly important for this topic, as it will be the 80-years anniversary of the end of WWII, liberation of different concentration camps and other locations (such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška), and the anniversary and liberation of many cities in Europe from Fascist and Nazi occupation.
The project focuses on combating Holocaust and other genocides’ denial, countering distortion, and trivialization of historical facts, by sharing accurate information, organizing public debates on the best practices of confronting distortion and creating new materials and methods based on personal stories and biographies of time-witnesses, victims, and survivors. The resulting research will also analyze and highlight resistance and organized opposition.
Partners
- Documenta – Centre for dealing with the past (Croatia)
- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka)
- The Max Mannheimer Study Center (Germany)
- Topografia per la storia (Italy)
- Intercultural Institute Timișoara (Romania and Slovenia)
- Sinagoga Maribor (Slovenia)
- The European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) of the University of Barcelona’s Solidarity Foundation
Related activities
Twisting the Past: Questioning Historical Revisionism
October 23, 2025 | University of Barcelona
This international conference will bring together experts to critically reflect on today’s challenges to democratic memory and examine how distorted narratives of the recent past are constructed, disseminated, and contested.
International Training for History Educators
September 26-29, 2025, Timișoara
Exploring Memory and Displacement: Study Visit and Photographic Workshop at ”Le Fraschette”, Italy
September 17-20, 2025
Study Visit and Action Day “Stara Gradiška”
July 7 – 10, 2025 | Call for Participants Open Until June 8, 2025
September 1-4, 2024
Training for teachers and educators organized by Max Mannheimer Haus in Dachau
Application is open until July 15
April 27-29, 2024
Kickoff meeting in Rijeka, Croatia