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    About In Between? – Neighbours Meet in the Borderlands

    31 August–11 September 2021, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine – Usedom/Wolin, Carpathia and Roztocze

    In Between? is an educational project for students interested in exploring the history of the European borderland regions. The participants are given a unique opportunity to conduct academic research using oral history methodology and learn how to present the results with help of the newest technologies.

    The 2021 edition called on students of:

    • Anthropology

    • Culture Studies

    • Ethnography

    • History

    • Journalism

    • Regional Studies

    • Sociology

    Participants were selected in an international two-stage recruitment process. Successful candidates took part in online interdisciplinary workshops and lectures on the historical context of the regions. They learnt how to conduct interviews, take pictures, make professional recordings and transform them into a podcast. Subsequently, the group was split into smaller teams and travelled to the borderlands to meet representatives of local communities. During the study visit, the teams gathered visual materials and sound recordings, and prepared a podcast documenting their conversations.

    All participants presented the results of their research at a closing conference in Berlin from 22-24 September 2021.

    In Between? – Neighbours Meet in the Borderlands. Final conference in Berlin, 22–24 September 2021

    On 22–24 September, participants of the educational project In Between? – Neighbours Meet in the Borderlands gathered in Berlin. Focused on discovering the heritage of border areas, the annual programme is delivered by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS). The meeting in Berlin offered a summary of the results of research conducted by an international group of university students in border regions of Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine in late August and early September 2021. The official presentation of the outcomes of their work and a debate on the podcasts they produced about the unique features of the regions visited took place at the seat of the Representation of the State of Brandenburg (Landesvertretung Brandenburg beim Bund).

    The participants were welcomed by Dr Jutta Jahns-Böhm, Secretary of State and Representative of the State of Brandenburg at the Federal Government; Dr Vasco Kretschmann, a representative of the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge), Rafał Rogulski, Director of the ENRS, and Dr Annemarie Franke, the In Between? project coordinator. They thanked the co-organisers of this year’s edition: Depot History Centre, Remembrance and Future Centre, the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute (ÚPN), Kreisau-Initiative and the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge), as well as the local partners: Borderlands Museum in Lubaczów, the Centre for Polish Culture and European Dialogue in Ivano-Frankivsk, the NGO Komunitná nadácia Bardejov, and Jugendbegegnungsstätte Golm. Special thanks were received by the EVZ Foundation, which co-funded the project as part of the Europeans for Peace programme. The discussion was attended by the following experts: Hanna Radziejowska, Director of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, Dr Mateusz Hartwich, a historian and publicist specialising in Polish-German relations and Tibor Macak, an RTVS radio and television correspondent from Bratislava.

    In this years’ (sixth) edition of In Between?, the project participants took part in workshops in photography, podcast production and research using the oral history method. In the first weeks of September, the students set off for study visits in German-Polish, Polish-Slovak and Polish-Ukrainian border areas, where they interviewed members of the local communities and made four podcasts, made available on Spotify (https://spoti.fi/2YwLl7z) and Simplecast (https://enrs.simplecast.com/)

    Together In Between is a podcast by the German-Polish group recorded in Ahlbeck, Kamminke and Świnoujście on the Island of Uznam/Usedom focusing on the challenges related to tourism developing in the region. Although the beaches of Uznam/Usedom are not divided by barbed wire anymore and the German and Polish seaside resorts are now linked by a promenade running for many kilometres, the borders continue to reside in people’s mentality. The podcast authors ask the interviewees on both sides of the border why it is so and how to change it. Together In Between paints a picture of the borderland as a living region: on a daily basis, its residents overcome institutional and communication barriers, much more tangible than the notion of border itself.

    Who, If Not Us is a podcast created in the Polish and Slovak Carpathians. The main characters featuring in the recording are persons whose mission is the protection of the region’s heritage as well as the identity of its inhabitants. It starts with statements made by activists saving the memory of Jewish communities of Bardejov (Slovakia) and Biecz (Poland) from oblivion. Their members perished in concentration camps during the Second World War or emigrated, and the buildings they left behind lay in ruins. In the second part of the podcast, the listeners become acquainted with the leader of the Ruthenian village of Osadne and women singing in the Lemko musical act Ruty Uwite, who talk about the challenges faced by ethnic minorities in today’s world.

    Lost Mosaic of the Borderland is a podcast created during a study visit to Lubaczów County on the Polish-Ukrainian border, a nostalgic story about the presence of the absent. Prior to 1939, the region was inhabited by a multi-coloured mosaic of population comprising Jews, Germans, Poles and Ukrainians. Due to the Holocaust and mass expulsions following the border changes, in the second half of the 1940s only those declaring Polish nationality remained in Lubaczów and its vicinity. Listening to the accounts of the interviewees who describe the peaceful life in the towns and villages of Roztocze before the war, one can tangibly sense that the memory of the armed conflict that broke out between Poles and Ukrainians in the years 1943–45 is still strong.

    Borders at a Crossing is the outcome of research done by a team collecting material on the Ukrainian side of the border area. The project participants visited Verkhovyna and Ivano-Frankivsk situated in former Galicia and now on the intersection of borders between Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. In the part devoted to Verkhovyna, the students interviewed Hutsul activists fighting for the preservation of the language and traditions of their community and talking about a special place the mountains have in their consciousness. The material recorded in Ivano-Frankivsk focuses on the multi-ethnic origins of the city. Representatives of Jewish, Polish, Hungarian and Armenian minorities remaining in Ukraine answer questions concerning the region’s past, present and future.

    During the discussion concluding the presentations, the project participants and experts shared their reflections on what surprised, irritated and fascinated them in the podcasts. Mateusz Hartwich emphasised that Together in Between confirmed his own observations as to grassroot solutions being more important than institutional ones. He also used an example from the podcast appealing for building bridges rather than turning them into symbols. Tibor Macak’s comments on Who, If Not Us related to the process of confronting the past which took place in Slovakia after 1989. Jews who were coming to the country in order to recover their lost property made Slovaks aware that the abandoned and dilapidated buildings used to belong to a community that had lived there for centuries yet was obliterated in collective memory. For her part, Hanna Radziejowska referred to the tension tangible in the podcasts titled Lost Mosaic Of the Borderland and Borders At a Crossing. The reason for it might be the absence of possibilities to hold free dialogue with the neighbours in the Polish-Ukrainian border region. While the open borders on the island of Uznam/Usedom and in the Carpathians facilitate daily contacts, building neighbourly relations and integration, the Polish-Ukrainian and at the same time European Union border condemns the local population to isolation and living in the past.

    The project In Between? – Neighbours Meet in the Borderlands marks a step towards overcoming barriers and establishing dialogue based on actual mutual contacts, both in the Polish-Ukrainian context and that of the other regions. Thanks to the work done in teams comprising representatives of two nations, the participants could learn about the local history of the border areas from two different perspectives and develop forms of expression taking into account the viewpoint of both sides. As a result, the podcasts made that way are not just an attempt at presenting reality and specific aspects of life of neighbours living on state borders but also the outcome of a consensus reached by their authors.

    Podcasts

    The podcasts can be heard here:

    Together In Between:




    Who, If Not Us:



    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands:



    Borders at a Crossing:



    Gallery

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    Graphic advertising the Final presentation of the In between? Neighbors Meet in the Borderlands. On the golden yellow background, the abstract contours of the political map of Europe are presented, with Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and Ukraine highlighted. These countries are covered with white dots, which flow from the radio microphone on the right. In the corner, a white logotype of the In Between? program.
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    Greeting words by Dr Jutta Jahns-Böhm, Secretary of State and Representative of the State of Brandenburg at the Federal Government Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden pannels. From behind the lectern, Dr Jutta Jahns-Böhm, Secretary of State and Representative of the State of Brandenburg at the Federal Government, addresses the audience in front of her.
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    Rafał Rogulski, Director of the ENRS. Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden pannels. From behind the lectern, Rafał Rogulski, Director of the ENRS, speaks to a microphone. In front of him, a row of the sitting audience.
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    Dr Vasco Kretschmann, a representative of the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge). Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden pannels. From behind the lectern, Dr Vasco Kretschmann, a representative of the German War Graves Commission, speaks to a microphone. In front of him, a row of the sitting audience.
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    Dr Annemarie Franke, project coordinator. Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden pannels. From behind the lectern, Dr Annemarie Franke, project coordinator. She looks directly into a camera.
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    Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels and tiled floor. An audience of the final presentation of the In between? projects sit in wide, spread-out rows of chairs. In front of them, on the right side of the photo, a speaker speaks from behind a lectern.
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    Members of the German-Polish team presenting the project "Together In Between" Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A young man dressed in black stands behind the lectern, his hands behind his back. On his left, a woman in a beige skirt and gry blouse stands, looking approvingly.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide. On the left, the title of the project In Between? Neighbors Meet in the German-Polish Borderland. Together in Between. On the right, a collage of photos. Underneath, a list of participants, coordinators, and podcast trainers. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide with two photos on it. One on the left presents a wooden sign on a beach, with Inselglück Usedom written on it. On the right, the google maps map presents the northern border of Poland and Germany, with the red pin marking the location of the Usedom island. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide with two maps on it. One on the left presents the border changes of Poland between 1939 and 1945, with particular attention paid to the lands that used to belong to the German state. On the right, a geographical map of the Usedom island, divided by the Polish-German border.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide. On it, five photos presenting different symbolical demarcations of the Polish-German border on Usedom island. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide. It shows a large map covering Eastern and Central Europe. A long line is drawn from Kazakhstan to Usedom island, with a shorter line drawn from the center of Germany to the same point. In addition, some stair-shaped markers cover western parts of Germany. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide with four photos on it. On two of them, single older men are interviewed. On the other, a woman turns away from the laptop on a table in front of her, to smile into a camera. In the fourth photo, four women sit around an older man. With the smiling and posing group, sitting in an entry to the building are two dogs. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide with three photos on it. They all present young people working on the audio interviews. In the photo on the very left, a young man is working on a laptop with his headphones on, while in the two other photos, young reporters armed with microphones and headsets stand on the beach and on the pier. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide with a single photo on it. It shows a group of seven young people, standing on a beach. Behind them, a body of water and slowly setting-down sun. The group is smiling and holding each other arms. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Together In Between
    Presentation slide. On the white background, the words Thank you for the opportunity to learn, to connect, to advance our professional skills and to meet many amazing people are written. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    German-Polish team. Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A group of nine people, of various age and gender stands in front of the screen with the presentation of their final In Between? project. Most of them are high-school-aged. They are all facing the camera, smiling.
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    Member of the Polish-Slovak team presenting project "Who, If Not Us" Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A young man dressed in black stands behind the lectern, addressing the audience. He is gesturing vividly.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide. On the left, the title of the project: In Between? Neighbors Meet in the Polish-Slovak Borderland. Who if not us? On the right, a collage of photos. Underneath, a list of participants, coordinators, and podcast trainers. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with three photos. They all present a small town in Central Europe. The subtitle beneath reads: the Jewish suburbia and Bardejov. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with two photos. On the left, a small white concrete building with a red roof stands on the hillside of a green hill. On the right photo, a bear-shaped monument stands in front of a row of trees. In the background, green hills.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with two photos. Photography on the left presents a group of visitors in a modernized interior, with their guide pointing to the inscription in Hebrew on one of the wall. Photography on the right presents the same group of visitors in a small, wooden room, facing the camera smiling. The subtitle beneath reads: Biecz and Libusza.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with three photos. From left to right: An orhtodox-style wooden church, Interior of the wooden house with the group of visitors gathered in front of the camera, a green courtyard of two wooden houses with two ladies hugging. The subtitle beneath reads: The open-air museum in Łosie.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with photo portraits of three men. From left to right: Pavol Hudak, Krzysztof Przybyłowicz, Peter Hudak. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with photo portraits of two men. On the left, Peter Soroka photographed with three orthodox icons in the background. On the right, Ladislav Mikulasko photographed next to a large machine engine. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with photo portraits of two women. On the left, Julia Doszna photographed next to a tree. On the right, Marlena Moździńska photographed sitting with her cat. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with four photos. They present a small group of young people interviewing an older man and browsing through the manuscripts in front of them. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with five photos. They all present different instances of young participants of the project making audio interviews in different settings presented on previous slides. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with five photos. They all present different instances of young participants of the project gathering ambient audio recordings - of walked-on grass, countryside noise, poured coffee - in different settings presented on previous slides. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Who, If Not Us
    Presentation slide with three photos. In the photo on the left, a young woman with a microphone and headset smiles, interviewing a man outdoors. In the smaller photos on the right, a man pointing to the map of Polish-Slovak border, and two people working on the power-point presentation.
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    Members of the Polish-Slovak team. Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A group of eight people, of various ages and gender stands in front of the screen with the presentation of their final In Between? project. Half of them are high-school-aged. They are all facing the camera, smiling.
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    Member of the Polish-Ukrainian team presenting project "Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands." Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A young man dressed in a black t-shirt stands behind the lectern, addressing the audience with the hands behind his back.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide. On the left, the title of the project: In Between? Neighbors Meet in the Ukrainian-Polish Borderland. Lost Mosaic of the Borderland and Borders at a Crossing. On the right, a collage of photos. Underneath, a list of participants, coordinators, and podcast trainers. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. In it, a group of seven young people sits around the long table, smiling to the camera. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. In it, a young woman embraces old woman. They are standing outdoors. Greenery and other people in the background. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. In it, a hostel room with six beds in it. Two young people interview an adult man who sits in front of them. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with three photos. All of them present different small orthodox-style churches in varied condition. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. In it, an interior of the wooden orthodox church. The photo focuses on the iconostasis, a decorative golden wall of icons at the center of the temple. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. In it, a bare room with a large window overlooking a village road. In the interior, multiple orthodox crosses out of iron lay without any visible order.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents a view of the inner side of a church dome. It is visibly in a neglected condition, with some of the white plaster fallen off, revealing a brick wall underneath. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. The photo shows an old interior with large windows. Three large bookcases stand against the wall. Next to them, a childrens table and chairs. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. The photo shows a group of onlookers stopping in front of a large abandoned building made of red brick. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. In the foreground, wild mushrooms. In the background, a forested old cemetery. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents a wooden country house. On its dark facade, a large chalk painting depicting a sited family, reminiscent of the old photographs. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents a young woman hugging a statue made of two large rolls of hay. In the background, countryside buildings. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents a group of four young people sitting by the table. They are working on setting up audio recording equipment. Behind them, an orange wall with orthodox icons. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents a group of six young people sitting in a circle of chairs. They are working on their laptops in focus. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents an office with a large cluttered desk. At it, a single woman works on her computer. She had turned towards the camera, with a look of slight irritation on her face. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity
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    Lost Mosaic of the Borderlands
    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents a countryside house in the dark night. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity
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    Member of the Polish-Ukrainian team presenting the project "Borders At a Crossing". Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A young woman dressed in a red shirt and white trousers stands behind the lectern. She is talking to a microphone, gesticulating vividly, with the presentation pointer in her hands.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide. On the left, the title of the project: In Between? Neighbors Meet in the Ukrainian-Polish Borderland. Lost Mosaic of the Borderland and Borders at a Crossing. On the right, a collage of photos. Underneath, a list of participants, coordinators, and podcast trainers. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with a single photo. In it, a countryside landscape. A small shed with chopped wood and brick building in the foreground, large green hill in the background.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos. In the one on the left, an inside of a small van bus with an older woman behind the wheel and Ukrainian plaque behind the windshield. It was taken in black and white. The colored photography on the right presents a village house in slightly runed-down condition.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos of the same man. He is sitting in the wooden room with multiple landscape paintings on the wall behind him. The photo on the left is in color, the one on the right is in black and white.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos. In the one on the left, a wooden traditional shed. On the left, a traditional kitchen with a white tile stove.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo of a countryside landscape. In it, a quick but shallow-looking large stream flows through the middle of a photo. Behind it, a heavily forested slope of a mountain.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos of the older woman. She is dressed in a traditional folk dress. In the black and white photo on the left, she stands in a wooden room, holding a framed picture of the family in front of her. In the colored picture on the right, she sits on a bench in front of a wooden cottage.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in the center. It presents a courtyard of the traditional wooden country house. On the left, four young people sit in a row on a bench. They are interviewing an older woman in the traditional dress, who sits on bench on the right.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in the center. It presents an interior of a wooden workshop, full of carpets and packs of wool threads. On the bench in front of a long table, an older woman is being interviewed by a young participant of the In Between? project.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in the center. It presents a forested hill slope on a sunny day. At its base, a country house.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos of the same man. On the left, his black and white portrait. In the colored photo on the right, He stands in a large office, pointing towards something behind the window. Also in the office, next to a man, a woman sits behind a desk with a computer on it. On a wall behind them, a map of the Pannonian Basin.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in the center. It presents hilly countryside on a cloudy day. At the base of the hills slope, a small kiosk. Further in the background, a village by the hill.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos. In the black and white photo on the left, an orthodox priest sits in a church interior. In the colored photo on the right, a collection of orthodox devotional articles.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with a single photo in a centre of it. It presents a group of five young people and an orthodox clergyman in a wooden interior filled with devotional art. They are all standing in front of a camera, smiling.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with a single photo in a centre of it. It presents a bird view of a street in Central European old town. A row of old townhouses stretches along the quiet street. A baroque church in the bacground.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos. In the one on the left, a group of young people stands in front of a religious painting in a large, decorative frame. In the photo on the right, a close-up of one of the figures of the gold-painted saints that make up the frame.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in a centre of it. In in, a group of six young people sits around the table, listening to an older woman at one of its ends.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in a centre of it. Indoors. An older woman sits in a black chair. She smiles, squinting her eyes.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with one photo in a centre of it. Indoors, a circle of chairs inside a room. Seven students sit in the chairs, listening to an older woman speaking. in the background, empty whiteboard and Polish, Ukrainian, and European Union flags.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos in it. Both show a Ukrainian town. In the photo on the left, an old town streat. In the photo on the right, an empty square in front of a baroque church painted in yellow.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos in it. Both show the same man - the one on the right in black and white, the one on the left in color. He is standing indoors, dressed in an orthodox Jewish manner in a long black coat and large hat with a wide brim. He has a long white beard.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with two photos in it. Both show a Ukrainian town. In the one on the left, a modernist building with a high clock tower. In the one on the right, a balcony on the corner of an older building in a slightly runed-down condition.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with on photo in the center of it. A group of sixteen people of different ages and gender, most of them high-schoolers, stands in front of a camera smiling. They are standing in a room in front of a large roll-up poster with writing in Polish and Ukrainian. It reads The Center of Polish Culture and European Dialogue in Ivano-Frankivsk.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with on photo in the center of it. Profesional radio recording bouth. Inside it, a man and a young woman sit in front of microphones, conversing. The poster behind the man reads The Center of Polish Culture and European Dialogue in Ivano-Frankivsk.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with on photo in the center of it. A group of sixteen people of different ages and gender, most of them high-schoolers, stands in front of a camera smiling. They are standing in a room in front of a large roll-up poster with writing in Polish and Ukrainian. It reads The Center of Polish Culture and European Dialogue in Ivano-Frankivsk.
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    Borders At a Crossing
    Presentation slide with on photo in the center of it. A sunny day in the countryside. In the focus of the camera, a grey country house in slightly ran down condition. In front of it, a metal gate with a stop sign on it. In the background, the countryside background with green hills in the distance.
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    Members of the Polish-Ukrainian team. Photo: Lukas Schramm
    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A group of ten people, of various ages and gender stands in front of the screen with the presentation of their final In Between? project. At least half of them are high-school-aged. They are all facing the camera, smiling.
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    Bright interior. Woman and two men had stood up from their chairs. They are all smiling, holding in their hands gifts of large decorative ginger cakes. On their arms, a toe-bags with the logo of In Between? project.
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    Interior, bright space with wooden panels. A woman speaks to a microphone facing a camera. She is sitting in a chair next to a roll-up poster with European Network Solidarity and remembrance written on it.
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    Interior, bright space with wooden panels and tiled floor. An audience of the final presentation of the In Between? projects sit in wide, spread-out rows of chairs. In the cameras focus, a young woman in a red shirt and white pants seems to be addressing someone on a stage in front of her.
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    Bright interior. A woman and two men sit in their chairs on the stage. The man who sits in a centre of the stage holds a microphone, talking to the audience. Others are looking at him.
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    Bright interior. A row of the audience of the final presentation of the In Between? projects, with three young women and a man sitting in it. Two of the women are engaged in a lively discussion.
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    Interior, bright space with wooden panels and tiled floor. A man sits in a chair, next to the coffee table with a bottle of water on it and a roll-up blue poster. He is talking to a microphone, looking at a woman who is sitting in a chair in front of him.
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    Interior, bright space with wooden panels and tiled floor. An audience of the final presentation of the In Between? projects sit in wide, spread-out rows of chairs. In the cameras focus, a young man in a white shirt talks gesturing vividly.
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    Interior. A large patio of the modern glass-and-concreate building. On a tiled floor, catering tables are set up. Groups of people are congregating by them, eating and talking.
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    Interior. A group of people is standing by the high catering table. Two of them, a young man and a woman, are engaged in a conversation with a woman whose back is facing the camera. In the background, other attendees of the final presentation of the In Between? projects,
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    Interior. Two men and a woman are engaged in a conversation. The man on the very right is Rafał Rogulski, the director of ENRS.
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    Interior. A group of people is standing by the high catering table. They are all high-school-aged, and they are visibly having a good time, laughing and joking.
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    Interior, a large patio of the modern glass-and-concreate building. An older woman in a hygienic mask stands by the high catering table.
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    Interior. A man in a hat and a puffy vest holds a cup in his hand, facing the camera. He talks with two young people whose backs are out of focus.
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    Presentation slide with a single photo in the center. It presents two people, a woman and a man, sitting on a grass lawn on a sunny day. Above all of it, a gold-yellow header with European Network remembrance and Solidarity.
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    Interior. A group of people is standing by the high catering table. A young woman in the center is engaged in a conversation with a person whose back is facing the camera. In the background, other attendees of the final presentation of the In Between? projects.

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