At the beginning of September Karin, Karolina and Michal met in Greifswald. It was not an ordinary work meeting, as their task was to prepare a proposal for the book that is going to be the main result of our project. Even though outside there were the last summer days, our team members worked diligently and, at the end, came up with the structure of the whole book as well as the individual chapters. When the right time comes, we will reveal more details about their results.
It was not a coincidence that our team members met in Greifswald. The town in northern Germany is the home of the Pomeranian State Museum, where Karin, Karolina and Michal met for their working sessions. The museum shows the history and culture of Pomerania, a historical region nowadays divided by the German-Polish border. In our research we focus on the Polish part and the objects left behind by their former German owners. In the museum in Greifswald our team members could see various objects that the fleeing or forcibly resettled Germans managed to take with themselves. Karin, Karolina and Michal got a guided tour through the exhibition of Pomeranian history in the 20th century by Dorota Makrutzki, a research assistant at the Cultural Office for Pomerania and East Brandenburg. They are very thankful for that and look forward to potential future collaboration.
pictures taken by Michal Korhel