The Museum Pankow is using the commemoration of the end of the war in Berlin 80 years ago as an opportunity to present the results of a search for traces in the Ukrainian twin town of Rivne. In a montage of moderated lectures and interviews, reports, film footage and historical testimonies, a connection is to be made between the end of the war in Berlin-Pankow and in Rivne/Ukraine Rivne in view of the present of war and peace.

1) Lecture and discussion:
Rivne 1939/1941/1944 - Western Ukraine in the Second World War
Dr. Kai Struve, University of Halle and LMU Munich
Moderation: Doris Fürstenberg

2) Online interview:
End of the war in 1944 in Volhynia after the withdrawal of the German occupying forces
Dr. Petro Dolhanov, Institute for Continuing Education Pedagogy and research associate at the Mykola Haievyi Centre of the Ukrainian Catholic University of Rivne
Interview: Bernt Roder, Museum Pankow

3) Film documentary:
Spuren des Krieges / Geschichte und Gegenwart in Rivne/West Ukraine
Comments: Yuliia Slyviuk, Christian Betz and Bernt Roder