Aarhus University – Uses of the Past

by EUROM | Feb 8, 2018

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...

Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)

by EUROM | Mar 15, 2017

The Berlin Wall Foundation was established as a foundation under public law by legislation passed on September 17, 2008. The foundation encompasses two institutions: the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial, both of...

Narratives of memory on State violence: the speech of the perpetrator

by EUROM | Feb 2, 2017

Memory and narrative of the perpetrators of state violence have been treated as an object of study by historians for decades, particularly in the case of Nazi Germany. More recently, several studies and projects have addressed this issue in other geographical areas...

Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

by EUROM | Dec 9, 2016

The Kistler-Ritso Foundation established an Occupation Museum of the recent past in Estonia with the aim to study the developmental processes of the period 1940-1991, as well as to collect and exhibit relevant materials, both objects and documents. Its homepage is...

In Between? Conference

by EUROM | Nov 14, 2016

The “In Between?” conference will bring together in Warsaw the scientific partners, experts and participants of the project “In Between? Searching for oral histories in European borderlands”. The program includes presentations of the study...