The PPSCO Project
Power of Personal Stories in Confronting Oblivion (PPSCO)
The project „Power of Personal Stories in Confronting Oblivion” aims to strengthen the practices of remembrance of the Holocaust, and other genocides committed during WWII, in the partner countries and the European Union. The year 2025 is particularly important for this topic, as it will be the 80-years anniversary of the end of WWII, liberation of different concentration camps and other locations (such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška), and the anniversary of liberation of many cities in Europe from Fascist and Nazi occupation.
The project focuses on combating Holocaust and other genocides denial, countering distortion, and trivialization of historical facts, by sharing accurate information, organizing public debates on the best practices of confronting distortion and creating new materials and methods based on personal stories and biographies of time-witnesses, victims, and survivors. The project will also analyse and highlight resistance and/or organized opposition.
Accomplished activities and results:
- Kick-off meeting – Rijeka, Croatia, 27-30 April 2024;
- Round-table – Rijeka, Croatia, 29 April 2024;
- Visit to Memorial Center “Lipa Remembers” – Lipa, Croatia, 30 April 2024;
- Training for teachers and educators – Dachau, Germany, 1-4 September 2024;
- Visit to former synagogue – Maribor, Slovenia, 16 September 2024;
- Study visit to Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau – Poland, 27-28 January 2025;
- Study visit and action day at Stara Gradiška – Croatia, 7-10 July 2025;
- Study visit and photographic workshop for youth in Fraschette concentration camp, Rome – Alatri, Italy, 17–20 September 2025;
- International Teacher Training – Timișoara, Romania, 26-29 September 2025;
- Conference on Holocaust distortion, Barcelona, Spain, 23 October 2025;
- Encounters with local policy makers and stakeholders (during the project);
- Local multiplier events (during the project);
- Desk Research on denial and distortion of the Holocaust and other WWII genocides in the partner countries (Croatia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Spain);
- Digital biographies;
- Educational toolkit;
- Online photographic exhibition;
- Recommendations on how to combat Holocaust denial and distortion.
Project partners:
- Documenta – Centar za suočavanje s prošlošću, Zagreb;
- Centar za istraživanje holokausta i genocida na jugoistoku Europe, Rijeka;
- Max Mannheimer Haus, Dachau;
- Topografia per la Storia, Roma;
- Institutul Intercultural Timișoara;
- EUROM – Observatorio Europeo de Memorias, Barcelona.
Photos and more information on the project can be found HERE.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
