Links of Memories

Funding: Federal Foreign Office of Germany
Partners: Centropa (Hamburg, Germany), Fundacja Galicia Jewish Heritage Institute (Kraków, Poland), Maghid and the Jewish Museum (Chișinău, Moldova)
Duration: 2025–2026
Project management: Bozhena Pelenska, Uliana Kostenko
Contact: office@insha-osvita.org

Links of Memory is an international project on memory culture and historical education for teenagers, which we joined as partners.

The project includes several activities:

• Production of a short film on commemorative practices from 1945 to 2025, to be presented in schools in Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, and Germany.
• An exhibition by photographer and journalist Edward Serotta, “The Ukrainian-Jewish Album: Photographs and Stories from the 1920s to 2024.” The exhibition will travel to villages and small towns across Ukraine and will be accompanied by a programme of art-based therapeutic workshops and discussions about the memory of war and wars, developed by Insha Osvita. The programme aims to build a connection with the contemporary realities of Ukrainian youth — responsibly and sensitively, without causing retraumatization (while not ignoring the current situation).
• Two exhibitions by Centropa: “The Jewish Family Album of Moldova” and “A Jewish Witness to the Polish Century” — will travel to villages and small towns in Moldova and Poland. Within these exhibitions, workshops on memory culture and human rights for young people will be organized.
• An international podcast and audio essay competition for teenagers, “Links of Memories – 80 years since the end of World War II”. More information about the competition is available via the link.
• A meeting of project participants in Kraków in April 2026. The programme will include the presentation of the Ukrainian exhibition, the award ceremony for the podcast competition winners, and the premiere of the short film. It will also feature artistic workshops, an interactive journey through sites of Jewish history in Kraków, and a commemorative visit to the former Auschwitz concentration camp.

The project is implemented by Centropa (Hamburg, Germany) in cooperation with Insha Osvita, Fundacja Galicia Jewish Heritage Institute (Kraków, Poland), and Maghid and the Jewish Museum, with the support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.