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Forum Z- Lokalgeschichte ganz nah

Sarah Maya Vercruysse

Forum Z- Lokalgeschichte ganz nah: Persönliche Kriegserlebnisse in Schifflingen

Written by Susanne Schmolze

The WARLUX team is pleased to invite the public to C2DH's next Forum Z, organised in cooperation with the Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humains (MNRDH, Esch-sur-Alzette) and taking place in Schifflange on 22 February 2023.

The event serves as an opportunity to present the project and its first results to a wider audience and will focus on Schifflange as a case study for how the German occupation and forced conscription affected the lives of the population. In accordance with the biographical approach of project WARLUX, we will present our database on individual lives of residents of Schifflange. We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Maria Fritsche (Norwegian University of Science and Technology as a keynote speaker on everyday life under occupation.

The WARLUX team is also looking to further build its digital collection of ego-documents on Schifflange, so we invite everybody whose families lived in the town during the war to share documents (letters, diaries, photographs...) and have them scanned on-site.

The event will be followed by a reception.

For further details, please visit the C2DH website or get in touch via email: warlux@uni.lu

Details

Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 16.00–20.00
Rathaus – Salle Grand-Duc Jean
11, Avenue de la Libération
L-3801 Schifflange

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