Undesirable Heritage. Kashubian Memory of the Death March 1945 from the Educational Project's Perspective

The places we live in influence our identity the monuments we pass every day, the names of the streets shape our vision of the world from a young age. Similarly, the stories of our grandparents, their memories, the shared recollections impact who we are. Heritage exists across multiple interpretative dimensions and may refer to memorials, various types of objects including mass graves, memory sites or a museum of the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof. The presentation will show how Kashubs, the regional minority residing today in Northern Poland perceive and value „undesireble heritage” and examine how its remembrance is reconstructed and preserved, influencing contemporary identity and community cohesion on the example of educational projects for youth and adults From the past generation let our voice go to all generation, linking generation in collective remembering, denying and gloryfing variuos memories and action revolving around the Death March 1945 (evacuation of the Stutthof Concentration Camp). The presentation will offer an overview of certain parts of the memory project based on Pedagogy of Place and Memory (M. Mendel, D. Demetrio) highlighting its multifaceted impact on society and local memory politics.