Competition Topics

Organisation: KARTA Center Foundation, Warsaw
www.karta.org.pl/

Year Topics Participation Report
1996/1997 "Everyday Life in Poland in the Years 1945-1956" 730 contributions
1,318 participants
 
1997/1998 "Citizens vs. Authorities in the Years 1956-1980" 425 contributions
748 participants
 
1998/1999 "The Most Important Event in the Annals of Your Community" 789 contributions
1435 participants
 
1999/2000 "My Family in the Whirlwind of History" 1,069 contributions
1,435 participants
 
2000/2001 "Work in the Polish People's Republic: for Oneself, for Society, for the System?" 668 contributions
1,086 participants
 
2001/2002 "Stranger Among Familiars - Experiences of the 20th Century" 473 contributions
890 participants
Report
2002/2003 "People on the Move. Migration in History" 648 contributions
1,094 participants
 
2003/2004 "Controversy in Commemorating the Past - Monuments, Cemeteries, Patrons" 371 contributions
715 participants
Report
2004/2005 "Everyday Life in Time of Turning-point 1944-45" 548 contributions
990 participants
Report
2005/2006 "Religious Life in the Polish People's Republic (1945-1989): Individual, Community, Institution" 297 contributions
605 participants
 
2006/2007 "The Disobedient in 20th Century" 275 contributions
518 participants
Report
2007/2008 "A Small Homeland in Memory and Testimonies" 359 contributions
637 participants
Report
2008/2009 "1989 - End, Turning-point, Beginning... ?" 144 contributions
297 participants
Report
2009/2010 "Stigma of World War II - Fates and Memory” 413 contributions
703 participants
Report
2010/2011 "History at Hand"
Subtopics:
1. Children of War - Soldiers and Victims
2. School Photographs - The Wartime Fates of Schoolfellows, Friends and Teachers
3. Meetings in the 20th Century. Poles and Russians: Friends, Enemies, Neighbours?
4. Warsaw Built, Destroyed, Rebuilt. My Places and People of These Places...
281 contributions
512 participants
 
2011/2012 "History at Hand"
Subtopics:
1. Poles and Russians in the 20th Century - Recorded and Effaced Stories
2.The First and Last Days of World War II - the Memory Stock Photos
3. Struggle, Resistance, Rebellion - Value and Price of Disagreement in the PRL [The Polish People's Republic]
237 contributions
470 participants
 
2012/2013 "Poles and Their Neighbours After World War II: Against Each Other, Side by Side, Together" 100 contributions  
2012/2013 Special initiative: “Poland and Germany: Against Each Other, Side by Side, Together” 100 contributions  
2013/2014 no competition round    
2015 "Hidden History - Undiscovered, Untold, Unheard ... " 50 contributions
350 participants
 
2016 "Hidden History - Undiscovered, Untold, Unheard ... " 80 contributions
290 participants
 
2017 "Hidden History - Undiscovered, Untold, Unheard ... " 50 contributions
189 participants
Report
2018 "The Contemporaries of Independence" 16 contributions
70 participants