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The 7th edition of our annual meeting “Taking Stock of European Memory Policies” will delve into the diversity of memories and citizens’...
From its early years, the Franco dictatorship institutionalized repression as a core policy, with forced labor playing a central role. This practice...
The concept of heritage as "places of memory" encompasses a diverse array of spaces, typically material in nature, that serve as reminders of a past that refuses to fade into obscurity. Often linked to traumatic events, these sites engage with the present through...
The Public Library of Cáceres (Spain) will host the international conference "Historical Memory from an Iberian Perspective: Dictatorship, Repression, and Democratic Transformation" on September 27 and 28, 2024. The event aims to explore and compare the struggles for...
A group of sixteen teenagers participate in the first summer work camp focusing on the history of the construction of the L-401 road in the Catalan Pyrinees, built using forced labor from 1941 to 1954. The initiative, supported by local and regional institutions,...
Projects
The Ventas prison (1931-1969) was the most populated female prison in the history of Spain. Located in Madrid, it was originally conceived as a...
This transnational project aims to create a public platform with information about Portuguese and Spanish forced labourers in Nazi Germany. Funded...
The EUROM - Fundació Soildaritat UB has been involved in the co-production of the doc-fiction hybrid “Canción a una dama en la sombra” (Song to a lady in the shadow) since 2019. The feature film is inspired by stories of numerous women who were forced to start a new...
The EUROM is one of the partners of the NGO Mèdicus Mundi Mediterrània in this project that aims to take stock of the cooperation between the cities of Sarajevo and Barcelona after the 1990s war in the Balkans until nowadays. The project aims to inspire citizenry...
Route to Exile is an educational programme developed by the Associations Be Wild, Be Proud and Ruta al Exilio with the support of the Youth Institute of Spain (Injuve) of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda 2030 in collaboration with the European Observatory on...
Publications
This online publication is a compilation of the papers presented at the first international seminar "Discovering the Silenced", organized by the...
A new memorial framework for Francoist’s main monument This website by the Ministry of the Presidency - Secretary of State of Democratic Memory...
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Publications
This online publication is a compilation of the papers presented at the first international seminar "Discovering the Silenced", organized by the EUROM, the Peace Museum of Gernika and the City Council of Granollers in 2022. Related activities Discovering what has been...
A new memorial framework for Francoist’s main monument This website by the Ministry of the Presidency - Secretary of State of Democratic Memory proposes a new look at the Cuelgamuros monument, based on the analysis of its architectural, religious, patrimonial,...
Videos
The Jean Monnet House, the Istituto di Studi Federalisti Altiero Spinelli and EUROM - The European Observatory on Memories - in collaboration with...
Full video recordings of the conference "Resistance and Solidarity", jointly organized by the EUROM and the ENRS at the University of Barcelona on...
Premiere for International Women's Day | March 8, 2023 On August 12, 1944, the Nazis entered the Italian town of Sant'anna di Stazzema, located in the Apuan Alps, and murdered 560 residents and refugees, mostly women, girls, and boys. In this short film specially...
Vered Glickman, art curator and former director of the Israeli Cultural Institute of Budapest, is the guest speaker for this activity organized in collaboration with the City Council of Barcelona on the Holocaust Remembrance week. She presents some of the works of the...
Madrid February 24, 2023 | 12 pm Opening ceremony of the third edition of the project Route to exile. Scars of the Landscape. The event also introduces the online exhibition with the projects developed by the 40 participants of the route in 2022. Organized by the...
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