Crossborder Factory

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

Crossborder Factory is a European think-and-do tank. Its goal is the strengthening of intercultural competence and European commitment. Crossborder Factory provides a platform for European citizens who wish to actively participate in shaping a democratic, peaceful,...

Bloody Sunday Trust – The Museum of Free Derry

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

If there is any event related to the city of Derry from which contradictory views of the past arise, it will surely be known as the Bloody Sunday. On Sunday, 30 January 1972, 26 civilians taking part in a republican demonstration organised by the Northern Ireland...

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at...

Aarhus University – Uses of the Past

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The past is not what it once was. This is a graffiti used as a title for a book on historical methodology written by a Norwegian historian. The past is a point of orientation for individuals as well as for communities in the present. Memories, material objects and...

Mémorial de la Shoah

by EUROM | Oct 14, 2019

The seeds of the Shoah Memorial were planted during the war with the founding of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center), an archive that collected evidence of anti-Jewish persecution. Later, the Memorial of the...