A commemorative exhibition dedicated to Yevfrosinia Kersnovskaia's 100th birthday opens 24/06/08 in the Lobby of the Hemicycle of the Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg (75, Allee de la Robertsau, 67000 Strasbourg,France), where Council of Europe holds its plenary meetings.
The press conference will take place 24/06/08 at 15.00 in Room 1, Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg.
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OST: A Lifelong Curse. Fate of Ostarbeiters during and after the WWII in documents, letters, and rec…
Winner of the 2021 Jan Michalski Prize
Winner of the 2017 Enlightener Prize (Russia)
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Ostarbeiter ("Eastern worker" in German) was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. Deportations of civilians commenced at the beginning of the war and reached unprecedented levels following Operation Barbarossa of 1941. Over 50% of Ostarbeiters were formerly Soviet subjects: ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, Russians, Tatars, and others. Estimates of the number of Ostarbeiters range between 3 million and 5.5 million. All Ostarbeiters workers were required to wear an identification patch with "Ost."
By 1944, most new workers were very young, under the age of 16, as those older than that were usually conscripted for service in Germany; 30% were as young...
Read moreThe Three Fat Men, a novel by Yuri Olesha
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The novel was written for both children and adults. It is a story set in an unknown land about an uprising led by the gunsmith Prospero. (The name is an allusion to the magician in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.) The novel has the didactic and schematic qualities of a fairy tale and is filled with unexpected metaphors and dexterously shifting points of view. In The Three Fat Men Olesha displays the same mastery of style present in Envy and his short stories.
Olesha's The Three Fat Men is of one of...
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