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This book is an invitation to a very special voyage of discovery through Luxembourg's south: around forty Luxembourgish, German, French, Italian, Belgian writers and historians have been inspired by Bruce Springsteen's songs and have written texts about the Luxembourg-Lorraine iron ore basin, "de Minett", and about those who live and have lived there, were born there or immigrated there, worked there, loved there, dreamed there, hoped, struggled, succeeded - or failed.

Am Tag des „Anschlusses“ Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich am 12. März 1938 lebten in Wien rund 170.000 nach den „Nürnberger Rassengesetzen“ als Juden kategorisierte Menschen. Es wurde von Tag zu Tag bedrohlicher und gefährlicher als jüdische Person in Wien zu verbleiben und durch Adolf Eichmanns „Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung“ wurden die Betroffenen schrittweise ihrer Lebensgrundlage beraubt. Gleichzeitig gab es international zu diesem Zeitpunkt kaum noch Staaten, die bereit waren, eine größere Anzahl an jüdischen Flüchtlingen aufzunehmen.

Situated in the centre of Europe and bordered by two major powers, France and Germany, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has always sought to maintain an openness to its neighbours, for reasons of security and to give itself access to larger markets. In the 19th century Luxembourg was part of the German customs and trade union (Zollverein). Following the First World War, the country embarked on a process of economic and monetary integration with Belgium via the BLU and it played a driving role in the Benelux Economic Union.

The genre of Australian Aboriginal autobiography is a literature of significant socio-political importance, with authors sharing a history different to the one previously asserted by the European settlers which ignored or misrepresented Australia's First People.

In the talk by Inna Ganschow, the camp experience in the Soviet Union will be treated as a consequence of the forced conscription, namely in its artistic processing. Secretly written diaries and letters of Luxembourg Wehrmacht soldiers or poems of deceased comrades learned by them by heart, they also reached their homeland.

This Memorial is bridging stories and memories of victims and survivors of the Shoah.

At the core of our data collection method in our project “Testimonies from the war” is collecting interviews with displaced population, forced to leave Ukraine because of the Russia’s invasion. Interviewing is a qualitative method of data collection whose results are based on intensive engagement with respondents. In our case, the topic is forced migration and the change of peoples’ lives from 24th February till today. Strategies for engaging interview participants.