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Confronting Memories at the Polish-Ukrainian school
On 20 April 2023, Confronting Memories took part in the Polish-Ukrainian school, organised by the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe and funded by UNICEF.
Polish and Ukrainian students of the Zespół Szkół Technicznych i Ogólnokształcących nr 2 from Katowice took part in four days of visits, workshops and integration activities to get to know each other better and learn new knowledge and skills along the way.
The Confronting Memories workshop took place at the Ossolineum, a cultural foundation and archival institute in Wroclaw. Its collection began after being transported to Wroclaw from Lviv in 1947, after many works and documents had already been destroyed or stolen as a result of World War II.
After a tour of the building and its history, the students learned about the history of four cities which, as a result of WWII, found themselves on the other side of an international border: Lviv, Gdansk, Kaliningrad and Brest. They studied sources and used their own knowledge and the information from the tour of the building, to create impressions of the cities before and after the war. This particular activity can be found in our lesson material on border changes after WWII.
For the students, it was a worthwhile reminder of the importance of multiperspectivity and the acknowledgement of different perspectives and ideas, particularly in their international context.
Polish and Ukrainian students of the Zespół Szkół Technicznych i Ogólnokształcących nr 2 from Katowice took part in four days of visits, workshops and integration activities to get to know each other better and learn new knowledge and skills along the way.
The Confronting Memories workshop took place at the Ossolineum, a cultural foundation and archival institute in Wroclaw. Its collection began after being transported to Wroclaw from Lviv in 1947, after many works and documents had already been destroyed or stolen as a result of World War II.
After a tour of the building and its history, the students learned about the history of four cities which, as a result of WWII, found themselves on the other side of an international border: Lviv, Gdansk, Kaliningrad and Brest. They studied sources and used their own knowledge and the information from the tour of the building, to create impressions of the cities before and after the war. This particular activity can be found in our lesson material on border changes after WWII.
For the students, it was a worthwhile reminder of the importance of multiperspectivity and the acknowledgement of different perspectives and ideas, particularly in their international context.