Silesia: Memory of multiethnic Region

Silesia has been over the centuries a part of various state departments . This fact influenced its cultural and historical memory and the fate of the local inhabitants and co-created ethnic and national diversity, which is typical for the area until today. In the project, the Polish and Czech partner devote mapping collective memory of members of various ethnic and national groups living in Silesia. Each group has its own destinies, which on the one hand, reflect the socio-political development of the region and central Europe in the 20th century, on the other hand, are strongly conditioned by the specifics of a given ethnic group.