| To understand the contemporary Romania. |
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european institute of cultural routes |
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| Sorina Capp |
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Motto: "Creating an opposition between the future and the past is useless. The future gives us nothing: we must give it everything. But in order to give, one must have, and we have nothing except the treasures of the past." ("The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.") (Simone Weil)
Memoria.ro - created and operated by the Aspera Foundation - is a digital library of interviews, memoirs, oral history studies, books and images of Romania's recent history. It presents political, social and cultural events as reflected in the consciousness of those who experienced them directly.
Such a collection can never be exhaustive. However, being published on the Internet - a medium that is at once relational, flexible, diverse and democratic - it can aspire to comprise in time a large number of documents. This site intends therefore to be an open book, a work in progress, a collection that integrates and interconnects the memories of those who have lived in Romania - or have known it closely - from the 1900's to the present. |
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