Author: Mariami
from Georgia, participant of the eCommemoration Campus 2020 »Beyond the Crisis«
The Power of Hope in Wartimes in a Georgian Village
Imagine a tiny mountainous Georgian village in early 1942. No death notifications have arrived yet. People hope that the war will end soon. Optimistically, villagers decide to build a new school for their children. This decision will become the shiniest light in the darkness of wartime – and a symbol of hope many years later.