On the first day, presentations will be held at the “Orzeł” Centre for Cultural Integration at 17 Chopina Street from 12:30 to 19:00; on the second day, at the State Archives in Wrocław, Bolesławiec Branch, at 6B Bankowa Street, from 9:00 to 14:00.

The speakers will include lecturers and students of the University of Wrocław, historians, art historians, representatives of Bolesławiec associations, teachers, archivists, museum professionals and enthusiasts, who will present various issues related to the post-war history of Bolesławiec and Lower Silesia.

The event is organized by the Historical Atlas Workshop of the Institute of History at the University of Wrocław, the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, the Memory and Future Centre in Wrocław, the State Archives in Wrocław, Bolesławiec Branch, and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre–International Ceramics Centre.

You are warmly invited to listen to the presentations.

Detailed conference programme

Day 1 of the proceedings
Venue: “Orzeł” Centre for Cultural Integration, 17 Chopina Street

12:30–12:45 Opening of the conference by Bolesławiec Mayor Piotr Roman and Janusz Gołaszewski, Director of the State Archives in Wrocław
12:45–13:00 Screening of the documentary film “Who Are We?”
13:00–13:30 Presentations by Bolesławiec associations: the Society of Friends of Lviv and the South-Eastern Borderlands, the Association of Re-emigrants from Bosnia, Their Descendants and Friends, the Bolesławiec Circle of the Siberian Deportees Association, the group of re-emigrants from France, and the Bolesławiec Cavalry Association named after the 6th Kaniow Lancers Regiment

Moderator: Grzegorz Strauchold
13:30–13:45 Jerzy Zieliński, The importance of historical projects for building the local identity of Bolesławiec residents from the perspective of the revived local government
13:45–14:00 Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel, Analysis of the report “The Identity of Lower Silesia’s Residents” (2011) in the context of the region’s historical past
14:00–14:15 Natalia Kotrys, The sick person in Wrocław’s settlement space during the Weimar Republic, using the Pracze Odrzańskie housing estate as an example
14:15–14:30 Piotr Pałys, Attempts to revive the Sorbian ethnic community in Lower Silesia (1945–1948)
14:30–14:45 Leszek Ziątkowski, Historical memory of Lower Silesia’s Jewish population
14:45–15:00 Filip Wolański, Historians on a mission – the social function of Wrocław research into the history of early modern Silesia in 1945–1981
15:00–15:15 Coffee break

Moderator: Anna Bober-Tubaj
15:15–15:30 Dariusz Przybytek, Settlement maps of Lower Silesia in the early modern period – a cartographic presentation
15:30–15:45 Grzegorz Strauchold, Settlement in the Western and Northern Territories in the `Atlas of the Recovered Territories`
15:45–16:00 Grzegorz Sobel, A taste from afar… On people and influences in Wrocław’s former gastronomy
16:00–16:15 Aleksander Srebrakowski, From the Lithuanian forests to another Poland
16:15–16:30 Discussion
16:30–17:30 Lunch

Moderator: Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel
17:30–17:45 Kamilla Jasińska, Where did they come to Wrocław from? The routes taken by the first employees of the University of Wrocław in the archival documents of the University of Wrocław and Jagiellonian University
17:45–18:00 Zygmunt Brusiło, Return from the former Yugoslavia after 1945. Historical circumstances
18:00–18:15 Mariusz Olczak, Former soldiers of the Home Army “Zośka” and “Parasol” Battalions in Lower Silesia, 1945–1948
18:15–18:30 Adam Baniecki, “The land remained the same…” Changes in agricultural culture in Bolesławiec County in 1945–1949
18:30–18:45 Discussion and summary of Day 1
19:00 Dinner

Day 2 of the proceedings
Venue: State Archives in Wrocław, Bolesławiec Branch, 6B Bankowa Street

Moderator: Adam Baniecki
9:00–9:15 Zdzisław Abramowicz, Repatriates or expelled persons? The history of selected settlers in the Bolesławiec area
9:15–9:30 Anna Bober-Tubaj, The destruction and reconstruction programme of Bolesławiec’s Old Town in 1945–1960
9:30–9:45 Edmund Maliński, The beginnings of education in post-war Bolesławiec (1945–1950)
9:45–10:00 Maria Subik, “Our Heritage” at Municipal Gymnasium No. 2 named after Poles Deported to Siberia in Bolesławiec
10:00–10:15 Krzysztof Rajczakowski, Soviet enclaves in Bolesławiec after the Second World War
10:15–10:30 Agata Bojanowska, Monuments as testimony to Bolesławiec’s post-war history
10:30–10:45 Barbara Grzybek, Everyday problems of settlers in Lubań based on the newspaper “Na Straży” in 1945–1946
10:45–11:00 Discussion
11:00–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–11:30 Exhibition opening of photographs by Barbara Schutta

Moderator: Edmund Maliński
11:30–11:45 Rościsław Żerelik, Demographic processes in the Lower Silesian countryside in the post-war period, using Szczepanów in Środa County as an example
11:45–12:00 Ivo Łaborewicz, A Lower Silesian attempt to establish an association of Poles displaced from the East
12:00–12:15 Rafał Nowakowski, Bolesławiec’s partner cities in the landscape of the city and region
12:15–12:30 Barbara Techmańska, The Recovered Territories – my (un)conditional love…
12:30–12:45 Katarzyna Uczkiewicz, Landscape as memory
12:45–13:00 Izolda Topp, Living in a stranger’s house
13:00–13:15 Discussion
13:15–13:30 Joanna Wolska, Journey westward. The memoirs of Franciszka Wolska née Szuszkiewicz
13:30–13:45 Marta Łobacz, The Karkonosze Mountains of Tadeusz Różewicz
13:45–14:00 Angelika Perz, Jan Owczarek – an extraordinary figure
14:00–14:15 Summary of the proceedings