Pomeranian Webinar
Saturday, October 19, 2024 1 p.m. EDT
(U.S and Canada)
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in English
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Pomeranian Webinar
Saturday, October 19, 2024 1 p.m. EDT
(U.S and Canada)
time zone converter
in English
featuring
This presentation will feature archival materials from Polish and German archives that help trace daily life in
East Pomerania or Ostpommern from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th century. Documents include official
correspondence, private letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and memoirs. The presentation will also include
tips on how to find materials from specific counties and villages in both German and Polish archives, as well
as provide an overview of digitized sources.
Dr. Matro is a German native and spent countless hours in German and Polish archives, historical institutions,
museums and universities in Bayreuth, Szczecin and Warsaw doing research for her Postwar in No Man’s Land
Ph.D. dissertation. Her dissertation won the prestigious 2016 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize from the German
Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history
written at a North American university. Dr. Matro graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, holds an MA
from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. in central European history from
Stanford University. Currently, Dr. Matro is a history and sociology teacher at a Montgomery County Maryland
public high school. She is fluent in 3 languages.
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