75 years after
WWII remains one of the most painful and conflicting episodes of the European nations’ memories. Present time conflicts are embedded in history and in the use of history as a political tool. In order to understand the roots of present conflicts, to overcome prejudices and stereotypes, we need to deal with history.
“I think even with the rise of the right wing-parties especially now in Germany of the AfD, there is a clash of cultures between the majority who are open for memory, commemoration and maybe minority who is even let’s say minimising a lot of things or fighting even against commemoration”.
Ulrich BAUMANN – Deputy Director of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin
Credits
EU-Russia Civil Society Forum presents
DIRECTOR: Stefano di Pietro
IDEA & CONCEPT: Kristina Smolijaninovaitė
PRODUCTION BERLIN: Christina Riek
PRODUCTION GDANSK: Laurynas Vaičiūnas
PRODUCTION MOSCOW: Evelina Rudenko
CONSULTANT: Anna Sevortian
ARCHIVE MATERIAL:
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress, funded by The European Union, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the OAK Foundation
INTERVIEW PARTNERS:
Ulrich Baumann, Wojciech Duda, Nikita Lomakin, Alexander Mikhailov, Jörg Morré, Kristina Smolijaninovaitė
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Barbara Anna Bernsmeier, Daria Bykova, Elena Eremeeva, Andrzej Gierszewski, Alexander
Keller, Christopher Michael Kelley, Jacek Kołtan, Elena Komarova, Nela Laryšová, Nikita
Lomakin, Nastassia Maes, Elisabeth Peck, Dmitriy Romanov, Maksim Shashkov, Ida
Sveinhaug, Alicja Wancerz-Gluza, Gudrun Wolff, Elena Zhemkova
