MEFRO – European Memories of Borders

by marc | Sep 2, 2015

MEFRO – European Memories of Borders (Mémoires Européennes des Frontières)- works on the transfer and knowledge-sharing of memory issues in order to build a permanent network of interdisciplinary and transnational work to treat European borders as a place of...

Liberation: between the historical moment and an endless process

by EUROM | Aug 20, 2015

Liberation: between the historical moment and an endless process The 7th Mauthausen Memorial Dialogue Forum shall contribute to illuminate the term “liberation” in connection with the end of National Socialism in Europe in all its different historical, remembrance,...

Fall and Rise. Heritage Reconstruction after War

by marc | Aug 9, 2015

After wars, countries often resort to their cultural heritage to guide the reconstruction process that follows. Two fundamental dynamics motivate this interest: one is the desire to repair, restore and recover what was lost; the other is the necessity to make a...

Srebrenica, memory of a genocide

by EUROM | Jun 20, 2015

Through the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), the UB Solidarity Foundation (FSUB) organises a number of activities around the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide devoted to the memory and remembrance of the facts that took place in 1995 in that town in...

Mauthausen and Gusen memorials

by EUROM | Nov 10, 2014

On November 2014 part of the team of the European Observatory on Memories visited the Mauthausen Memorial, the memorial site of the former Nazi camp in Austria. They where received by the director of the memorial and the head of the archives and during the meeting...