European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) In Between? Project 2022 July 2022 In Between? 2022: ‘Bridges Over the Olza’ – Polish-Czech Borderland In Between? is an educational project that aims to explore the history of the 20th century and its legacy in border regions. The participants have the opportunity to conduct oral history research in European borderlands. Gaining theoretical knowledge and interdisciplinary and practical skills, they record history’s witnesses, local activists and representatives from local institutions to create a podcast about the specificities of the border region they visit. Our destination in the Polish-Czech borderland was the partner cities of Cieszyn and Český Těšín at the foot of the Beskid Mountains. Before the First World War, Poles, Czechs, Jews and Austrian Germans lived in Cieszyn, the capital of the region. The provisions of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 began the process of regulating the borders of the Polish and Czechoslovak states diplomatically, militarily and politically. As a result, the city was divided by a border running along the River Olza. The podcast Bridges Over the Olza is a collage of humorous anecdotes, put against a broader background of the city’s past. Copyright © 2022 McCall Mash | Developed by Shisang
