24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War. Documenting Ukrainian experience of the Russian full-scale invasion.

During her stay in ZZF, she will focus on her current research project devoted to documenting the Ukrainian experience of the Russian full-scale invasion. Wylegała is a coordinator of the Polish part of the project "24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War" (https://swiadectwawojny2022.org/en/), an international initiative that as of March 2024, gathered more than 500 interviews and plans to continue the documentation as longitudinal research project, conducting the second round of interviews. Right now, the project team is working on the methodology of the second round of interviews, solving issues of sensitive information assessment and management, ensuring the participatory character of the research and developing a plan for the future collection access for the general public. 

Vita

Anna Wylegała is a sociologist and Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on the social history of the II World War and the immediate postwar period. She is also interested in the qualitative methodology of social research, oral history and memory studies. She is an author of "Displaced Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine" (2019) and "Był dwór, nie ma dworu. Reforma rolna w Polsce" [There was an estate, there is no estate any more. Agricultural reform in Poland] (2021). She also co-edited two other volumes: "The Burden of the Past: History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine" (2020), and "No Neighbors' Lands: Vanishing Others in Postwar Europe".

During her stay at the ZZF she Anna Wylegała is Visiting Fellow in the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"