by Blandine Smilansky, House of European History Learning Department

Following Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine in February, the House of European History (HEH) commissioned a research to provide insights into the crisis and help HEH audiences better understand what is at stake in Ukraine.

The current pandemic is not only a health emergency, it is having a deep social, economic and cultural impact. The world is changing as we speak. In order to understand how it is changing, we need to look carefully around us, even if we are only looking out from the windows of our own homes.

As part of our 'History in the Making: Documenting Covid' initiative, we are collecting messages of longing and loneliness that have appeared along former borderlines.