The international exhibition of Michael Daniel Sagatis „Józefa’s letters: Extraction from Oblivion”

18 of May 2018, 12.00, in International Museum Day, at Memorial museum of totalitarian regimes „Territory of Terror”(Chornovola avenue, 45 G) British scholar Michael Daniel Sagatis will present his family story on „Józefa’s letters: Extraction from Oblivion”
In program of the exhibition start May 18:
12:00 – a press briefing and guid on the exhibtition for journalists byMichael Daniel Sagatis project author. He will tell finding and researching of those letters.
17:00 – discussion about the topics: „Repressive politics of soviet authority concerning civilians (1930-1950)”, „The issues of national diversity in presence Ukraine and specificity of relations in the past”, „Epistolary sources for researching and rethinking of the past”, „Mechanisms of rethinking traumatic experience of history, which still „living” as the experience of past generations”.
Speakers:
– Historian Michael Daniel Sagatis (UK)
– Literary expert Iryna Starovojt (Ukrainian Catholic University)
– HistorianIrynaSklokina (Center forUrbanHistoryofEastCentralEurope)
– Expert of jurisprudence Stepan Bilostockiy (Lviv National University of Ivan Franko)
– Historian Nadiya Stepanenko (Kazakhstan)
– Philologist Alexandra Imilowska-Duma (translator of Józefa’s letters)
Moderator – Ihor Derevianiy (Memorial museum of totalitarian regimes „Territory of Terror”)
Exhibition „Józefa’s letters: Extraction from Oblivion” is 25 letters of Józefa Bujdo, citizen of Second Polish Republic, who was deported to Kazakhstan by soviet regime. The letters was adressed to three Józefa’s daughters. In her letters Józefa was describing the conditions of herlife, feelings and emotions about separations with her family.
Exhibition represents original letters with translations on Ukrainian, English, Polish languages (the language of original – Polish dialect). Józefa’s letters – unic artefacts, which show individual and family experience of survival in totalitarian regime and in social isolation.
Throught 2017 – 2018 exhibition was presenting in The Museum of Genocide Victims (Vilnius, Lithuania), in Shoah Cellar Museum (Budapest, Hungary), Kazakh national-culture center (Aktobe, Kazakhstan).
Author of concept of exhibition and designer: Michael Daniel Sagatis, citizen of United Kingdom. Was borned in Neath, Wales, in the Polish-Lithuanian-Irish family. Michael – Józefa’s great-grandson and grandson of her daughter Wanda, who moved with family to Great Britain in 1946. Michael graduated University College London – London’s Global University, historical-philosophy faculty (2000). The main research topics are: literature as historical source, history of Stalin’s repressive politics, history of GULAG, history of russian literature XIX-XX st.
Organizer of exhibition in Ukraine: Memorial museum of totalitarian regimes „Territory of Terror”, Lviv, Chornovola avenue, 45 G
Exhibition is opening: from May 18 to August 1, Monday-Friday, 10:00 – 18:00.
Partner of project: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe.