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We are writing down family history
The twentieth century had worked well, erasing memories of the past, especially in the USSR. Not much people know the history of their family today. Is it necessary?
We used to look at history as a series of "great events" - wars and revolutions, changes in dynasties and state borders, great geographical discoveries and technological inventions. But where we are here? Where are people who live their lives here - growing children, earning money, doing household chores, loving or quarreling, getting educated or moving to another place? Textbooks seem to imply that this life also exists, and is a self-evident background of a great history. But in fact, entire generations go into oblivion, leaving a very vague memory only.
How much do you know about your grandmothers and grandfathers, great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, about relatives who lived at least 80-100 years ago? Who were they? What did they do? How did they experience these or other "big" historical events? How participated in them or avoided participation? What did they feel? How did they make certain decisions? Very often, an unknown, forgotten family history continues to influence the lives of modern people. Either in the form of "skeletons in the closet", that are vaguely guess about, or in walking through (surprisingly!) long-familiar rake. Knowing and understanding of the ancestors - their actions, motives, reactions - will allow us to better understand ourselves and, probably, not to repeat other's mistakes. Perhaps, knowing the history of the family by your children will make you got understood better and save more memories about you? Not to mention the fact that biographical interviews are an invaluable source of historical evidence for the science.
What
The services of conducting in-depth (biographical) interviews.An interview is recorded by the voice recorder. Place and time of the interview are agreed by the participants. Usually it takes about 2-3 hours for an interview with old person.
Arranging separately:
- Need of additional visits;
- Capability and necessity of video recording;
- Editing text of the interview;
- Scanning photos.
The customer gets a digital audio recording with the text of the interview.
We can find specialists for archival work.
Who
Oleksiy Musiyezdov and the team of experienced interviewers.
Oleksiy Musiyezdov - Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Department of Sociology at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, researcher with a 15-year experience in conducting in-depth interviews. In particular:
Oleksiy Musiyezdov - Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Department of Sociology at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, researcher with a 15-year experience in conducting in-depth interviews. In particular:
- "Memory, Responsibility, and Future" - a collection of biographical interviews of former Ostarbeiters - people displaced to forced labor in Germany during the World War II (Memory and Reconciliation Foundation), the Institute of History and Biography (Hagen, Germany), the Kovalsky Eastern Institute of Ukrainian Studies. (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
- "Voices of Resistance and Hope: Kyiv-Lviv-Kharkiv" - a collection of interviews with Euromaydan participants (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine))
- "Urban Identity in the (Post) Modern Ukrainian City (case of Kharkiv and Lviv)" (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Edmonton, Canada))
- "An Identity of Kharkiv: A Concept of the City and its History as Identification Factors" (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)).
Contact
Phone: +38 063 192 89 25E-mail: musiyezdov@gmail.com