Post Bellum is proud to be a part of an international network of partner organizations, and is actively working on the development and growth of such a network. We bring together documentarists, historians, journalists and teachers in order to preserve peoples’ memories, develop critical thinking and support the values at the core of our society. Our goal is to expand this approach within Europe and beyond.
Thanks to our regional branches around the Czech Republic we carry out various concepts of cross-border cooperation with our neighbours. This helps people come to terms with their own history and fill in the trenches opened up by historical grievances.
- Documenting
Our international collection, www.memoryofnations.eu, is one of the broadest open databases of witness testimonies and contains hundreds of recordings of foreign witnesses from tens of countries. We cooperate with documentarists from three continents, and our mobile studio heads out to record abroad both near and far. With our own studio or local documentarists, we record testimonies in Cuba, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, Poland, Austria, Israel, the USA and other countries.
Since 2011, we cooperate with our sister organisation “Post Bellum SK” in Slovakia.
In 2020, our sister organisation “Post Bellum Ukraine” was established in Lviv.
- Human rights projects
An important part of our activities compose human rights projects – we support documentarists from Belarus, Cuba and Myanmar and help processing and distributing their recordings of dissidents and political prisoners in order to foster democratization and civil society in general.
- Educating and Narrating
Together with our international partners we cooperate with schools and educational institutes.
We are searching internationally for crucial topics and events of our common history and make forgotten life experiences public in the form of exhibitions, comic books, media outputs etc.
LIST OF OUR RECENT INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS:
Memory of our Nations – Never forget our totalitarian heritage
Lost Childhood – online platform and exhibition about repressions in Ukraine
Is it possible to create a Museum of Central Europe?
The Development of Historical Memory of Belarus
The Expelled Children – a comic book
Trabi 1989 – remembering the exodus of Eastern Germans through Prague
Comic book Forced Labour under National Socialism published in Russian and German languages
The Removed Memory – expelled Germans share their stories
We are the Memory – children remember holocaust through theatre performance
Training of the documentarists from Burma
Stories of the 20th Century: Forced Labor in National Socialism
Twentieth Century in Memories of Czech Minority in Serbia
Romani Memory: Recollections of Roma from the Central European perspective
Wandering in the Cross-border Footprints of Czechoslovak and Polish dissidents
Silesia: The Memory of an Multi-ethnic Region
Cross-border Routes (IVF project)
