Dictatorship
A Dictator Under the Bed: Portugal, Spain and the Ghost of Autocrats
As a country having lived through a dictatorship, you carry your burden - and in the best case your learnings, too. Pedro from Spain draws connections between Portugal and Spain, between family's pasts and official remem... (more)
Stitching Tradition: A Piece of Spanish History in my Grandmother’s Dress
For almost four decades, Francoism defined how to believe and behave. María from Spain remembers her grandmother, who only dressed freely after Democracy arrived...
The Green Cigar Box or: How to Deal With Your Family’s Nazi Past
An empty cigar box containing the burden of a heavy-weighing family history: When German-Australian student Kelly found out that her great-grandfather's cigar box is a relic of her family's involvement during the Third R... (more)
The Threads of Resilience – Experiences of 4 Women
How to endure a crisis? How to stay strong when life is tangled? Four women, four countries, four stories. What they have in common: They have taken lose strings to create something new. Because anything you've dreamed o... (more)
The Censored Voices of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal
A story of revolution, hunger and censorship told by members of Cláudia Almeida‘s family. They witnessed the fall of the dictatorship in Portugal and the Carnation Revolution in 1974. What was it like be a child or worke... (more)
Budapest: A Beauty With a Dark Past
Vida from Germany takes us to Budapest to look at what kind of past hides the parliament in Budapest.