Traces of the abandoned stories

"We were born to remember... That's what we're here for." - Heinrich Böll A Polish-Ukrainian workcamp took place in Drohobych (Ukraine) from 2. till 17. October 2007. 15 volunteers from both countries worked for 2 weeks, renovating and cleaning gravestones on a historic cemetery at the Truskavetska Street. We are really happy that the results of the project are even greater than we expected initially. Thanks to the commitment and enthusiasm of the participants over 12 Austrian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian gravestones have been renovated and cleaned, giving a completely new appearance to the part of the cemetery, where the works were conducted. We have also uncovered the oldest known gravestone on the cemetery, which was earlier toppled and coated with soil and moss. Apart from the works on the cemetery we also found time to visit Lviv, Truskavets, Stryi and Tustan as well as to organize cultural evenings - including a meetings with Leonid Tymoshenko, Associate Professor (Dean of the Faculty of History at the Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University), Alfred Schreyer (singer and the last student of Bruno Schulz), Adam Aurzecki (President of Drohobych's department at the Lviv District Polish Culture Society). The project was organized jointly by the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and the Charitable Fund of the Drohobych-Sambor Diozese of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Co-financed in the framework of the Cultural Heritage Volunteers ...



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