GRANTEE
The purpose of this project is to create an archive of the current Russian-Ukrainian war, with a special emphasis on the destinies of ordinary people, and the changes in their perception of events. This will involve volunteers, including foreign volunteers, soldiers, refugees, transporters, doctors, educators, artists, and members of religious congregations among others.
More specifically, the goals of the project include
- systematizing already collected eyewitness testimonies;
- continuing to collect testimony during the current year;
- continuing to translate the collected materials into foreign languages;
- publishing selected abbreviated interviews in Ukrainian and English on the UCU media platform (https://ucu.edu.ua/cat/war-histories/) and the platforms of partners;
- transferring all collected video and text materials in their entirety as oral history documents to a specially created project platform, where they will be available to researchers, journalists and other interested parties both in Ukraine and abroad; and
- preparing for publication a collection of selected interview-memoirs entitled "Small Stories of the Great War: Year One".