Programme

12 October 2009 (Monday)

9:00	PRESS CONFERNCE
10:00	OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE [SPEECHES]
	Danuta Kobzdej - Head of the board of the Solidarity Center Foundation [Poland] Bertel Haarder - Minister of Education [Denmark] Katarzyna Hall - Minister of National Education [Poland] Ole Løvig Simonsen - Chairman of the Baltic Initiative and Network [Denmark]
11:00	EXPERTS DISCUSSION
	Historical introduction about the Cold War: Jerzy Eisler [Poland] Historians’ speeches: Marion Brandt [Germany] Thomas Wegener Friis [Denmark] Marcin Zaremba [Poland]
13:00	DISCUSSION: MEETING WITH THE EYEWITNESSES OF THE HISTORY
	Host: Dariusz Bugalski [Poland] Lech Wałęsa [Poland] Bogdan Borusewicz [Poland] Wolfgang Templin [Germany] Natalia Gorbanievskaya [Russia]
15:00	QUESTIONS FROM YOUNG PEOPLE TO THE EYEWITNESSES OF THE HISTORY
18:00	SOLIDARITY CENTRE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME GDAŃSK – CITY OF FREEDOM

13 October 2009 (Tuesday)

9:00	REALITY OF THE COLD WAR
	Mr. Johannes Bach Rasmussen, Baltic Initiative and Network [Denmark] Overall introduction Mrs. Ieva Gundare, The Museum of Occupation [Latvia] Propaganda or reality? Growing up in the Soviet period Mr. Siegfried Reiprich, Memorial Museum Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (former Stasi prison) [Germany] Secret police activities in a Soviet society Mr. Heiki Ahonen, Museum of Occupation in Tallinn [Estonia] The dissidents. To have another political opinion and the consequences Ms. Anna Sokolova, The Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg [Russia] Artist life in a Soviet country. Example: Anna Akhmatova Mrs. Birute Burauskaite, Museum of Genocide Victims [Lithuania] The deportations. Deportations from Lithuania in 1941 and 1948. Mr. Dmitry Kokorin, Memorial Museum Mocsow [Russia] The Gulag camps. To be a prisoner in a hard labour camp Mrs. Dovile Lauraitiene, Museum of Genocide Victims [Lithuania] Partisan activities in Lithuania Mr. Berndt Gottberg, Degerby-Igor Museum [Finland] Neighbour to the Soviet Union: Adjusted to reality Mr. Johan Andree, Beredskapsmuseet in Helsingborg [Sweden] Neighbour to the Soviet Union: Preparing for a total Swedish defense war Mrs. Meldra Usenko, Museum of the Popular Front in Riga [Latvia] The Baltic Singing Revolution in the historical memory of Europe Mr. Jerzy Borowczak, Solidarity Center Foundation [Poland] The beginnings of the Solidarity movement
12:30	CSOLIDARITY CENTRE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME ICE-BREAKING CUBE – Museum of the Cold War
17:00	OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION - THE END OF THE CONFERENCE

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