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Edina's beach bag
A blue and white striped bag with white handles - at first glance an inconspicuous beach bag. But it tells the moving story of the then 33-year-old Edina Rizvanović's flight from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina to Ulm.
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Erinnerung und Biographie der Deutschen aus Polen ("Memories and Biographies of the Germans from Poland")
With the outbreak of the Second World War, the centuries-long coexistence between a number of population groups in Poland came to an abrupt end. A series by the Martin Opitz Library provides insights into the lives of the local German-speaking population at the time, their memories, and their...
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Für, mit und gegen Napoleon. Revolution, Reform oder Restauration
So sehr die Ära Napoleon ein Stück gesamteuropäische Geschichte ist, so sehr unterscheiden sich die Überlieferungen und Deutungen dieser Zeit in den einzelnen europäischen Staaten. Eine Doppelausstellung befasst sich mit den Ereignissen in Schlesien, den Hintergründen und der Historiographie...
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German-Polish Museum Forum
German-Polish dialogue on museum exhibition and education work – HAUS SCHLESIEN offers German and Polish museum experts a forum for discussion and cross-border exchange through its curators' conferences.
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HEIMATFREMDE
The question of how to deal with strangers and the foreign, but also with one's own sense of being alien, is at the center of many public discussions. Also for young people, the issue of how these matters are handled in their immediate, everyday environment is by no means an insignificant one. What...
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Holdings and collections of the Danube Swabian Museum
From a refugee’s suitcase to a popcorn maker, from the jacket of a forced laborer to a perennial Christmas tree: the holdings of the Danube Swabian Museum convey Danube-Swabian culture and history in a multifarious and eclectic way. An unexpected and special feature of the collection is that many...
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Holdings and collections of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
The scientific library of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation includes German and foreign language books, newspapers and magazines as well as digital media on the topic of forced migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries in Europe. In addition to a contemporary...
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Home in a trunk of clothes - the Garlik family's traditional costume suitcase
This suitcase has traveled far – not, as one might expect, after the Second World War, but rather in the decades after the flight of the Nessner family. It was used to transport the traditional costumes of a Danube Swabian dance troupe from Baden-Württemberg as they toured to enclaves of Danube Swabians scattered around the world.
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Important locations in Copernicus’ life
Nicolaus Copernicus rose to fame due to his interest in the stars. But where did he spend his life on Earth? Most of his sites of activity are found in present-day Poland, and many of them also relate to German history.
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Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe
Europe – a region that is more than the sum of its parts. Migration and the constant exchange between its inhabitants have been and still are of utmost importance to the creation of a European relationship history. The Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (IKGS) is...
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International DZM Forum "Migration Connects"
"Migration Connects" is both the name and the motto of the International DZM Forum. Here, people with international roots can meet, work together with the Danube Swabian Museum (DZM), and help to shape it. In doing so, they also help to make Ulm a little more colorful.
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Jewish Postcard Publishers and the Imagery of the Urban
In numerous cities across eastern Europe, Jewish publishers enjoyed notable success on the newly established postcard market. This article presents a socio-historical background of this topic and asks whether their social positioning influenced the depictions of the urban world they chose to feature on their postcards.
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Karl Stumpp (1896-1982)
Research into the culture and history of the Russian-Germans is highly relevant both from a historical perspective and today. Karl Stumpp still plays a key role in the formation of the Russian-German identity.
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Kleine Schriften ("Small writings")
Short and sweet: these are the Kleine Schriften ("small writings") of the Martin Opitz Library.
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Lembergs’s Coffeehouse Culture Before the First World War
The east Galician city of (Lemberg) Lviv had a lively coffeehouse culture during the Habsburg Empire. Poles, Jews and Ukrainians would gather over pots of coffee and tea. As the First World War approached, however, a growing sense of nationalism could also be felt in these otherwise convivial spaces.
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Library catalog (OPAC) of the Institute for German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe (IKGS)
In the library catalog of the Institute of German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe you can search in a stock of more than 20,000 books, 1,000 journals and hundreds of DVDs, CDs and much more.
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Migration
The term migration refers to spatial movements of people. But not every change of location is considered migration. Exactly which phenomena and processes of regional mobility are understood as migration in scientific, political, media or public debates is contested and subject to constant change.
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Nordost-Archiv
The "Nordost-Archiv" is published in the form of annual volumes on selected topics.
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Oldenburg and Russia (18th - 19th century)
Very close dynastic relations existed between the House of Holstein-Gottorf-Oldenburg and the Russian tsarist family from the second half of the 18th century on and in the 19th century.
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series of seminars
Oma kommt aus Schlesien ("Grandma comes from Silesia")
Families can be deeply affected and moved by stories about where they came from – and the stories and fates of those who escaped are still very much alive today. Many children and grandchildren carry the memories and traumas of their ancestors with them. HAUS SCHLESIEN addresses this issue and has...
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