Collecting, Sharing. Lower Silesian Community Archives

The concept of community archivism quickly gained popularity in Poland as one of the branches of public history. It concerns the need to collect, organize and disseminate selected fragments of the past.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-30/lower-silesian-community-archives/

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Unfortunate Choice of Words – or Is There More Behind It?

In the textbook "Geschichte und Geschehen" the term "mass deportations to Polish camps" is erroneously used in the chapter about the Holocaust. The knowledge of the textbook’s authors, editors and teachers has thus been called into question.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-24/unfortunate-choice-of-words-or-is-there-more-behind-it/

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Urban Images—An Industrial Metropole Reinvents Itself

The reality is that Upper Silesia has managed to overcome and ultimately leave behind outdated stereotypes. This especially holds true for Katowice, which has started to make much progress towards establishing its future.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-23/9502/

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