Under the surface of our societies, there are thousands and thousands of stories that add shades and details to the black and white picture of historical events. But many of these stories are too private, too personal, or too traumatic to share. Feelings like despair, shame, or guilt might be associated and one could be afraid of the reactions of others when telling them.

’Identity on the Line’ is a large-scale cooperation project between six cultural history museums and one university, working together to explore the long-term consequences of different migration processes, forced or voluntary, which took place in Europe over the course of the last 100 years.

Here, we give you a brief insight into historical events and causes of the migrations. But the core of both the project and the film are personal stories, feelings and emotions which were shared with the project by the migrants and their descendants. They seem to speak with the same voice, no matter the place of origin.

The war in Ukraine has made, unfortunately, this voices so actual…