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Arbeitsberichte ("Work Reports")
Summaries and descriptions of individual holdings of the Martin Opitz Library are published in the Arbeitsberichte ("Work reports") series.
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Complete collection of research materials of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association is home to an extensive and diverse range of collections relating to East Central Europe, including a library with a music and press collection together with an image archive and a document and...
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Cultural Office for Pomerania and East Brandenburg
Rivers run through the old maps like veins. For Pomerania and East Brandenburg, the Oder is the main artery. Anyone who is curious about the past and present of these historically developed regions (which lie either side of the Oder) will discover a wide range of services and resources provided...
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Digital Library of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe
The Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe e.V. (DiFMOE) has been operating a digital, freely accessible specialized library with historical documents on Eastern Europe since 2008. In the middle of 2023, its holdings of periodicals included 254 titles, encompassing newspapers, magazines and annual...
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Documentation center
Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
The Documentation Center offers exhibitions, a library and a testimony archive, tours, workshops and events. The Center provides information about the causes, dimensions and consequences of displacement, expulsion and forced migration in the past and present. Particular focus is on the displacement...
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series of seminars
Educational partnership between the Martin Opitz Library and Mulvany Vocational College in Herne
The Martin Opitz Library teaches media competence. Both successful information research and a critical approach to media are becoming increasingly important, whether at school, university, work or in private life. In order to impart these skills successfully and practically, the MOB cooperates...
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Enno Meyer (1913–1996)
As part of its biographical research, the BKGE is examining the multi-faceted life and work of Enno Meyer. The project will encompass a study on Enno Meyer's "47 Theses on the Representation of German-Polish Relations in History Teaching".
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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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From Brothers to Business Partners
The Train of Brotherhood and Unity was founded in 1961 as a grassroots commemorative initiative by Slovenian and Serbian journalists. Eventually, it became a manifestation of socio-political cohesion among Yugoslav nations, and a ritualized instrument for economic networking between Serbian and Slovenian municipalities.
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German-Lithuanian Years: Caesuras in the Relations between Germany and Lithuania in the 20th Century
Germany and Lithuania have little in common if we look at the two countries from a political and economic perspective. One is a heavyweight of the European Union, the other one of its smallest members. And yet there have always been moments when relations between the central European power and the...
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Intrafamily networks using the example of single persons in Latvian and Baltic-German family constructions
What was the significance of family connections for Latvians and Baltic Germans in the 19th and 20th centuries? The research project examines how family members interacted with each other and which networks developed in the process.
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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.
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Josef Pfitzner und Hans Hirsch
Source edition of the interwar correspondence between Prague-based historian and Nazi politician Josef Pfitzner and Hans Hirsch.
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Memorials in Wrocław
The Jewish community in Breslau, which was the third-largest in the German Reich in 1925, was forgotten for many years. However, after 1989, new interest in local history began to emerge in Wrocław, Poland. Nowadays, monuments and a commemorative procession serve as reminders of the Jewish people who lived in Breslau (the pre-1945 German name for Wrocław) during the pre-war period.
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Nordost-Archiv
The "Nordost-Archiv" is published in the form of annual volumes on selected topics.
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Permanent exhibition of the East Prussian state museum
East Prussia: Formerly the easternmost German province, today it covers parts of Poland, Russia and Lithuania. With its family-friendly presentation style and high-quality, informative exhibits, the East Prussian state museum conveys as complete a picture as possible of the history, art, culture and...
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Research contributions – Contemporary witness reports on the culture and history of the Germans in Eastern Europe in the 20th century
Contemporary eyewitness accounts are generally considered to be a particularly authentic way to access history. They make history comprehensible, even 'alive'. But is this really true? Aren't eyewitness accounts in their subjectivity, formedness and incompleteness rather a problematic...
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Surveying the ghettos Grodno - Chernivtsi - Chișinău
Together with civil society multipliers, historians and IT experts, students from Ukraine, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova are conducting several workshops and micro-projects on the history of the ghettos of Grodno, Chernivtsi and Chișinău.
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Westsplaining or Understanding
Shortly after the start of the war against Ukraine, various German authors formulated how Germany should behave as a state or as a society. This article uncovers the different strategies that have been used to influence the political debate through literature.
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So, you want to know all the details? The "Schriften" series gives a detailed insight into the topics of the Martin Opitz Library.