Following the encouraging results of the first “This is my Past” Call the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past announces second round of the public memory competition in three slightly different rubrics:
- Personal diaries and memoirs (your own or family members) written before 1989. Five prizes on the amount of 500 leva will be awarded;
- Lifestories and witnesses, recollections from the communist period from nowadays perspective. Four prizes on the amount of 500 leva will be awarded;
- Authentic documents witnessing the concentration and labour camps in Belene, Lovech, Skravena, Kutsian, etc., including: photographs of prisoners, of the camps and the area around, drawings, official documents… Fifty archive items will be awarded with 100 leva. All photos and valuable personal belongings will be returned after their digitalization.
Deadline for submission is 30 April 2008.
The Selection Committee is chaired by Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski and its members are: Diana Ivanova, Daniela Koleva, Georgi Gospodinov.
For additional information: minaloto@gmail.com
The call is part of the Knowledge and Memory Policies Project funded by CEE Trust.