Visualisations of 20th Century Forced Migrations

We are pleased to present the results of our 2022 art and documentation project "Visualisations of 20th Century Forced Migrations - Transnational Memory in Pictures and Art". 11 fellows from Europe have produced these impressive testimonies.
00:16 Mladen Nikolić (Serbia): The Lighthouses - Danube Swabians in Vojvodina
03:42 Olha Filonchuck (Ukraine/Germany): At the Still Point in the Turning World
06:21 Kalina Trajanovska (North Macedonia): Madžir Maalo - The 'Refugees' Settlement' in Skopje
10:39 Joanna Kowalska (Poland): Memory Hidden in the Landscape - Traces of Forced Migrations in Pstrążna, Poland
13:58 Badri Okujava (Georgia): Displaced People and Buildings They Left Behind - Forgotten and Remembered German Remains in Georgia
17:56 Antonia Foldes (United Kingdom): Threads - Displacements from Ukraine after 1945 and in 2022
21:30 Daria Koltsova and Liana Blikharska (Ukraine): It is still before my Eyes
25:02 Andrea Škopková (Czechia): Images of Law and Injustice - Forced Migration in the Czech-German Border Area after 1938 and after 1945
27:43 Brenna Yellin (USA/Germany): Disorderly Trajectories
The individual contributions were described by the creators in short texts. You can find them here: enrs.eu/editio...
Visual evidence of forced migration can be found everywhere in the once multi-ethnically populated regions and cities of Central and Eastern Europe. Searching for and interpreting them together is a crucial task to better understand and expand the visual memory of this painful chapter of European history.
The educational project offered an opportunity for an artistic exploration of historical sources and for the production of artworks that enhance public visibility of these events.
Young artists and professionals of various interest and expertise as history, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology and journalism took part. They were asked to formulate an artistic or documentary project aimed at exploring and visually documenting traces of forced migration. This year we focused on the context of Second World War and the time period of 1933-1949.
A Project of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V. Supported by Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Bundesintitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa. Further partners: Gedankendach, Centrum Historii Zajezdnia, Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość” & Sieć Ziem Zachodnich i Północnych.