Between War and Peace: The People Who Carry Europe’s History

How do you tell the story of a Europe that both remembers and represses its own past? Witold Szabłowski and Sofija Andrukhovych write about people living in the borderlands between East and West, past and present, hope and disillusion. In this conversation, they discuss how literature can give voice to those left behind when the walls fell, and how stories can help us find a freedom that runs deeper than politics—a freedom to understand, remember, and claim one’s own history..