Conference project Humanity and ‚Humanities‘ Within the framework of two lecture panels and a round table, the central challenges that the war in Ukraine poses for the humanities will be presented and discussed. Taking the example of the Ukrainian University of Chernivtsi/Czernivtsi, whose main building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the...
ICOM4Ukraine on the Protection of Cultural Property in Wartime Since February 24, 2022 Ukraine has been exposed to the Russian war of aggression. In the media we see not only images of desperate, injured and killed people, but also bombed churches, memorials, theaters and museums. In view of the destruction of numerous art and cultural assets, the question...
Series IKGS-Buchreihe (“IKGS book series”) Anyone with a deep interest in the Danube-Carpathian region and all its aspects should consider taking a look at the book series of the IKGS. Its monographies and anthologies set the stage for an international dialog about German culture and history, art, and literature in, from, and about East,...
Image database Image catalogue of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association In the online database of the Image Archive you will find the previously inventoried and digitized image materials from the collections of the Herder Institute as well as additional image sources from joint indexing and digitization projects with cooperation partners. Further analog and digital...
Intercultural project Inclusion?! Dealing with Disability in History and Today in Germany and Ukraine What do we mean when we talk about "disability"? What does inclusion mean and how can it be put into living practice? And how did people deal with it in the past? Young students from Ukraine and Germany discussed these and other questions in this project of the Bukovina Institute, contributing their...
Workshop International Danube youth camp Invited by the Cultural Office for the Danube Region, about 80 young people manage to live out – on a small scale and for one week – something that seems to be tremendously difficult on a large scale. They come from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,...
Interpretive Knowledge and Russia’s War of Aggression against Ukraine Russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine poses new research challenges in the humanities and social sciences. Given the low level of knowledge about the background of the current war, politics, media, and the society as a whole are facing significant challenges to deliver orientation...
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Andrij K. "I know that I won't be able to go to my favorite places for the next few years. That hurts and makes me very sad."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Anton D. "At the moment, I'm dreaming of doing the things we haven’t been able to do because of the war."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Anton S. "When I started volunteering, that’s when I got my daily routine under control."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Kateryna I. “We can buy everything, but not life”
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Liudmyla K. "We have put our heart and soul into it for 30 years. We planted berries and fruit there. And now it's all gone."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Mykola S. "And we tried not to forget that we have to eat and drink and go shopping sometimes.”
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Oleksandr K. "We talked about how it might be the last time we would see our neighborhood intact before it would be destroyed by war."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Oleksandra I. "When an airplane flew past the windows and everything was burning and roaring, then you knew it was time to run."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Valerij S. "The positive moments are when there’s news associated with the gradual liberation of areas of Ukraine."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Vladyslav S. "Everything in Kharkiv is great, no matter what it is."
show video You have not yet given permission to place the required cookies. Accept the required cookies to view this content.Inhalt anzeigen Interview (video) Interview with Yevhenii T. "At night, the sky is almost always glowing red. In Leningrad they have white nights, we have red nights in Kharkiv."
Digitalization project Jewish German Bukovina 1918+ "Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" is a digitization project of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe and offers free access to historical and contemporary documents from Bukovina or related to Bukovina. The time period ranges from the end of the First World War to the present.
Introduction Jews in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe The twentieth century brought monumental changes and unprecedented challenges to the East-European Jewry. Its story is told here in the voices of six Jewish women, whose lives were marked by its turbulent course.
