“Mennonite-Lutheran community of Katerynoslav in the conditions of the World War I and the Ukrainian revolution”
2022-02-18
With the assistance of the Center for Ukrainian-German Scientific Research, operating at the Department of World History of the Dnipro National University, and N.V. Venger, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Fulbright Scholar Casey Carsel visited the Museum of the History of Dnipro. The museum was very liked by a foreign visitor (Casey came to us from Chicago, USA), who remarked that we can only hope to better understand the present and make plans for the future when we know our past in all its details and nuances.
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International Scientific Conference "Without the Right to Return" dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the deportation of ethnic Germans to remote areas of the Soviet Union (October 15-16, 2021, Kyiv).
2022-02-18Olena Khodchenko, an employee of the Center for Ukrainian-German Research studies, took part in the International Scientific Conference "Without the Right to Return" dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the deportation of ethnic Germans to remote areas of the Soviet Union (October 15-16, 2021, Kyiv).
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The monograph "Life after death. History of Borozenkovsky colonies" by S. Bobyleva and E. Khodchenko was published.
2021-07-02The monograph "Life after death. History of Borozenkovsky colonies" by S. Bobyleva and E. Khodchenko was published.
It is devoted to one of the clusters of german speaking colonial communities, inextricably linked with the history of Southern Ukraine. The cluster consisted of 15 Mennonite and German settlements called Borozenkivsky.Жизнь после смерти. История Борозенковских колоний
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15421/512001
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Terra Oblita – Open Memory Map
2019-11-23Terra Oblita – Open Memory Map – https://terraoblita.com/ – is an international platform created to bring back the memory of National Socialism’s victims, that have little or no place in public memory. The platform was created to encourage recovery of the local memory of the Second World War’s victims: to search and share information about little-known sites of memory, as well as to create memorial practices. We believe, the history of National Socialism’s victims can never be written to the end. But each one of these histories has the right to be told, regardless of the existing memory cultures. Meantime, filling the gaps in our common history will contribute to mutual understanding.
The "forgotten" victims are different groups of people affected by the National Socialist regime but underrepresented in the history of a country or people. For example, the memory of Soviet prisoners of war is almost non-existent in public space, despite the huge scale of captivity of Red Army soldiers at the beginning of the war and the mass mortality rate in German camps. They are usually not mentioned at memorable events dedicated to the war both in Germany and in the former USSR territories. They hardly appear in fiction and scientific literature, or in public discussions. The lack of attention to them in the public domain complicates the memory practices in each personal history, makes difficult the support of family and local memory, as well as narratives. As a result, the other "forgotten" victims get obscured by the groups and topics remembered at the public level.
Platform Format
The platform is an interactive map and any visitor can offer his or her own memory space. It can be a little-known memorial or a place reminding the forced labor use, testifying to the executions, burials. We will check your text and make it available to other visitors for viewing and making new suggestions as soon as possible.
We hope that Terra Oblita provides an opportunity for the victims’ relatives of National Socialism crimes to find sites of memory and share their knowledge of hidden memorial locations. We welcome any contribution to filling the gaps in this part of the war history and are ready to engage with different audiences. On the one
hand, the platform should become a collection of valuable sources for the professional study of memorial practices in Germany and the former Soviet Union. On the other hand, it can be used as a resource for school teachers willing to share the history of the victims of National Socialism and to elaborate on the differences between memory cultures with their students.Organisers and partners
The platform was created as part of the “Memory – Wiki - In the footsteps of the memory of the “forgotten” victims of National Socialism in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Germany”, organized by the Berlin public association “KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI”. The idea and the content of the website were developed by the students of history at four universities: Bremen University, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don and the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Moscow.
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OUR PROJECT “Memory – Wiki - In the footsteps of the memory of the “forgotten” victims of National Socialism in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Germany” (2018 – 2019)
2019-11-23OUR PROJECT “Memory – Wiki - In the footsteps of the memory of the “forgotten” victims of National Socialism in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Germany”
(2018 – 2019)
About the project
"Terra Oblita – Open Memory Map" is an international platform created to bring back the memory of National Socialism’s victims, that have little or no place in public memory. The platform was created to encourage recovery of the local memory of the Second World War’s victims: to search and share information about little-known sites of memory, as well as to create memorial practices. We believe, the history of National Socialism’s victims can never be written to the end. But each one of these histories has the right to be told, regardless of the existing memory cultures. Meantime, filling the gaps in our common history will contribute to mutual understanding.
The "forgotten" victims are different groups of people affected by the National Socialist regime but underrepresented in the history of a country or people. For example, the memory of Soviet prisoners of war is almost non-existent in public space, despite the huge scale of captivity of Red Army soldiers at the beginning of the war and the mass mortality rate in German camps. They are usually not mentioned at memorable events dedicated to the war both in Germany and in the former USSR territories. They hardly appear in fiction and scientific literature, or in public discussions. The lack of attention to them in the public domain complicates the memory practices in each personal history, makes difficult the support of family and local memory, as well as narratives. As a result, the other "forgotten" victims get obscured by the groups and topics remembered at the public level.
Platform Format
The platform is an interactive map and any visitor can offer his or her own memory space. It can be a little-known memorial or a place reminding the forced labor use, testifying to the executions, burials. We will check your text and make it available to other visitors for viewing and making new suggestions as soon as possible.
We hope that Terra Oblita provides an opportunity for the victims’ relatives of National Socialism crimes to find sites of memory and share their knowledge of hidden memorial locations. We welcome any contribution to filling the gaps in this part of the war history and are ready to engage with different audiences. On the one hand, the platform should become a collection of valuable sources for the professional study of memorial practices in Germany and the former Soviet Union. On the other hand, it can be used as a resource for school teachers willing to share the history of the victims of National Socialism and to elaborate on the differences between memory cultures with their students.
Organisers and partners
The platform was created as part of the “Memory – Wiki - In the footsteps of the memory of the “forgotten” victims of National Socialism in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Germany”, organized by the Berlin public association “KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI”. The idea and the content of the website were developed by the students of history at four universities: Bremen University, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don and the National Research University "Higher School of Economics.
The project was carried out by the association "KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI" with the support of the foundations “Erinnerung Lindau” and “Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft”, as well as the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.
KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI e.V.Feurigstr. 68, 10827 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 78705288
E-Mail: info@kontakte-kontakty.de
Contact
E-Mail: OpenMemoryMap@gmail.com
nataliyavenger@yahoo.com
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Кафедру відвідав історик Альфред Айсфельд
2018-12-1030 жовтня 2018 р. «Центр українсько-німецьких історичних досліджень» та кафедру всесвітньої історії ДНУ відвідав відомий німецький історик, співробітник «Інституту культури та історії німців Північно-Східної Європи (Норд-Ост Інституту)» при університеті Гамбурга (ФРН) др. Альфред Айсфельд.
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