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Stories of Ukraine’s Lost Homes
The project documents the transformation of occupied Ukrainian territories since 2014. Through an online Museum of Lost Homes, it makes visible the effects of Russian state-building, the appropriation of “ownerless” property, and the everyday experiences of displacement.
Occupied and Erased: Stories of Ukraine’s Lost Homes
The project aims to document and communicate the profound transformations in occupied Ukrainian territories since 2014, intensified by the full-scale invasion of 2022. By creating an online Museum of Lost Homes, the project will combine personal narratives, policy analysis, and visual storytelling to Beyond presenting research findings, the project also engages with critical questions of ethics and security: How can stories be told without exposing people to danger or overshadowing Ukrainian voices? What forms of language and imagery are appropriate for representing loss, occupation, and resistance?
The Museum of Lost Homes will be developed in several phases, including workshops with researchers, journalists, and artists. It will be accessible in Ukrainian, English, and German, offering an innovative platform for scholars, displaced communities, educators, and the wider public.
The project is being realized in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IFL) and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, and is funded as part of the Leibniz Lab »Upheavals and Transformations«. Dr. Sofia Gavrilova (IfL) is the project manager.
