Organisation: Contemporary History of Luxembourg

  • Articles

    Piecing together the unknown fates of the Ostarbeiter in Luxembourg

    Inna Ganschow is researching the fate of the forced labourers from Soviet territories who were deported to Luxembourg during WW2.

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  • News

    Faces of the C²DH: Kevin Goergen

    Luxembourger Kevin Goergen works as a doctoral researcher at the C²DH and is focusing on the colonial history of his country, especially in the Congo Basin, through the COLUX project

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  • Research Projects Pages

    Loretta Walz Oral History Collection

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  • Articles

    Memory Quest: Reflections on crowdsourcing international testimonies

    Collecting memories of visiting the photography exhibition “The Family of Man”  when it toured the world seventy years ago.

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  • Events

    OST. The vanished traces of the forced labourers from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus in Luxembourg 1942-1944

    The exhibition at the CDMH in Dudelange shows the vanished traces of 4,000 forced laborers brought to Luxembourg during World War II from Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union.

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  • News

    Study exploring Luxembourg’s tax competitiveness co-written by Benoît Majerus

    The Scientific Unit of the Chamber of Deputies released a study exploring Luxembourg’s tax competitiveness. The historical chapter was co-written by Benoît Majerus.

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  • Events

    Dependence, Independence, Co-Dependence. Experiences and Narrations in the 20th Century

    Round table discussion about the question: what does it mean to be sovereign in a world of entangled histories and experiences?

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  • News

    Echoes of the Schueberfouer: Voices from the Fairground

    Exploring the theatrical and multilingual art of fairground “Recommandeurs” in the sensory chaos of the Schueberfouer during the 1960s.

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  • News

    C²DH Visiting Researcher Fellowships 2026

    The C²DH offers 3 fellowships for visiting researchers: for PhD candidates, Post-Docs and Senior Researchers.

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  • News

    Scholar at risk fellowship 2026

    To promote international exchanges and collaborations in the field of contemporary, public and digital history, the C²DH offers one short-term fellowship position for 2 months for a scholar at risk.

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