European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

Borderlands shape how people live, think and connect. Exploring life on the Neisse river, this podcast takes you to Görlitz and Zgorzelec, cities in between the German–Polish border. We gathered perspectives from locals, experts and cross-border initiatives to uncover how bridges (both literal and metaphorical) are built, and how communities have evolved transnationally. By listening to these voic...

Uczestnicy i uczestniczki projektu odwiedzili Pisz, Mikołajki, Kadzidłowo, Ełk oraz Ogródek badając pamięć o niemiecko-polskim sąsiedztwie sprzed ponad osiemdziesięciu lat. W podkaście przyglądają się temu jak tworzyła się tożsamość mieszkańców regionu przed 1945 r., kiedy Mazury były częścią Niemiec oraz po 1945 r., gdy tereny te zostały przekazane Polsce, a większość ich dotychczasowych mieszkań...

The participants visited Pisz, Mikołajki, Kadzidłowo, Ełk and Ogródek to explore the memory of the German-Polish neighbourhood of over eighty years ago. By telling this audio story, they try to understand the social relations in the area, with its ethnic-national rivalries, before 1945, when Masuria was part of Germany, and after 1945, when it was ceded to Poland and the ethnic composition of much...

The group of students retraced the routes of history across the Baltic Sea, travelling to Helsinki, Finland, and later the 80 km sea passage to Tallinn, Estonia. The journey, which during the Cold War was accessible only to a select few, subject to severe restrictions and scrutiny of border guards, is now a reflection of the transformation of the region and the renewed cooperation between the two...

'Sound of Division' is a podcast from the 'In Between?' 2022 series, created by an international group of European students that took part in workshops and study visit in the Italian-Slovenian borderland region in July 2022. When we look at a border, we usually see two separate sides, each of them with the markers of individuality, distinctiveness and difference. But the case of Gorizia and Nova G...

'Everyone has their own Alsace' is a podcast from the 'In Between?' 2022 series, created by an international group of European students that took part in workshops and study visit in the French-German borderland region in July 2022. The participants of the project spent one week next to the bucolic town Niederbronn-les-Bains 40 km north of Strasbourg. The authors of the podcast were visiting histo...

'Bridges over the Olza' is a podcast from the 'In Between?' 2022 series, created by an international group of European students that took part in workshops and study visit in the Polish-Czech borderland region in July 2022. There are two bridges crossing the Olza river, which connect Cieszyn in Poland and Český Těšín in the Czech Republic: the Bridge of Friendship and the Bridge of Freedom. Both t...

We are in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, a small North European country, which for the first time emerged as an independent state right after the Great War. This is a story of a small Baltic nation which seized the opportunity to become independent of two great European powers, Germany and Russia. Tallinn was the biggest city in the area at that time. Its strategic importance played a cruci...

With a population of over half a milion, today’s capital of Lithuania boasts a  700 year history. You may notice it without any effort, looking at one of the monuments standing  on a square next to the cathedral. A massive bronze sculpture of the 14th century Grand Duke Gediminas is placed near a horse. The monarch holds a sword in his left hand and blesses the city with his right hand. During his...

Roztocze, region położony na granicy polsko-ukraińskiej, to miejsce, w którym niegdyś łączyły się losy Polaków, Ukraińców i Żydów. Te czasy jednak minęły, a pozostały po nich jedynie nostalgia i gorycz. Niniejszy podcast przedstawia różne punkty widzenia na to, czym jest pogranicze.

Kaunas was a relatively minor and neglected city which happened to became a capital of the new Lithuanian state after the Great War. By 1920, with Vilnius under Polish military control, it assumed this unique, temporary status. Geopolitical tensions and territorial conflicts, however, fostered growth and urban development of the city, where carriages and horse carts crossing the central Mud and Go...

Roztocze on the Polish-Ukrainian border is a place where the fates of Jews, Poles and Ukrainians used to be intertwined. These times are gone, leaving behind a legacy of nostalgia and bitterness. This podcast shows a range of views on the experience of the borderland.

Borderlands lie somewhere in-between. Their identities are complex and controversial. There is no universal understanding of what it means to live on a border. We explore geographic aspects of the Ukrainian borderlands. We tell stories of various identities, and how they influence everyday life.

In the shadows of the Beskid Mountains ethnic minorities try to keep their identities alive. What are the challenges for Rusyns and Lemkos on the Polish–Slovak border? How do activists save the heritage of the Jewish community? How does it feel like to be in between a violent past and a hopeful future?

A group of young people from Germany and Poland conducted oral history research in Usedom/Uznam, an island in the Baltic Sea that is divided by the German–Polish border. They found out how the neighbours of both countries think about their borderlands. Are they In Between or are they Together?

Today, Vienna is one of the best cities in the world to live in. In a number of rankings, it usually takes the top spot, but always somewhere on the podium. A well-developed system of flat rentals, six underground lines, a developed labour market, as well as a lot of greenery and excellent museums - all of these attest to the city's rank today. Prosperity can also be seen in the period at the end...

Profesor Adam Kopciowski, badacz historii lubelskich Żydów, opowiada o sytuacji tej społeczności w pierwszych latach II RP i wysuwa hipotezę dotyczącą styku świata żydowskiego i chrześcijańskiego. Najtrwalsze ślady międzykulturowych i międzyreligijnych relacji zakonserwował język. Polszczyzna przejmowała słowa z hebrajskiego i jidysz - i odwrotnie. Działo się to przede wszystkim w knajpach i spelu...

Located in the center of the country, Lublin was a laboratory for Polish multiculturalism after the end of World War I. How did different worlds - mainly Polish and Jewish - lived together in the city? What was the position of the Evangelicals, and what of the Orthodox? Does the history of Lublin's multiculturalism continue today?

Znajdujący się w centrum kraju Lublin był po zakończeniu I wojny światowej laboratorium polskiej wielokulturowości. Jak ze sobą żyły w mieście różne światy - głównie polski i żydowski? Jakie miejsce zajmowali ewangelicy, a jakie prawosławni? Czy historia wielokulturowości Lublina znajduje współczesną kontynuację?