Documentary Screening: Erase the Nation

Schedule:

4:30 - Brief Introduction by Tomasz

4:45 - Film Screening

5:35 - Q&A

6:00 - Event Concludes

About the Documentary:

**This screening is part of the Intermarium Lecture Series and the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies**

The documentary film 'Erase the Nation,' directed by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, shows the destruction of Ukraine's cultural heritage, having been carried out by the Russian Federation's troops since February 22, 2022. The film shows the deliberate destruction of Ukrainian monuments from Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ivankiv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv to Izium and Bohorodychy in eastern Ukraine. The crimes committed against secular and religious cultural heritage, from archaeological monuments to modern libraries and schools. Testimonies by Ukrainian cultural representatives paint a picture of a deliberate struggle of barbaric invaders against Ukrainian identity, for which Ukrainian heroes are giving their lives. The film also presents ways of securing and attempting to protect damaged sites and the scale of assistance that is and will be needed to protect and restore cultural heritage in Ukraine.

About the Speaker:

Tomasz Grzywaczewski is a journalist, writer, filmmaker, and expert in Central and Eastern Europe studies. Author of the books “The Erased Border” dedicated to the people who formed the multinational mosaic of the Second Polish Republic, “The Borders of Dreams”, devoted to the post-soviet unrecognized states, “Life and Death on the Dead Road” and “Across the Wild East”. Speaker i.a. at Georgetown University in Washington DC and The Explorers Club in NYC. Author of the articles for numerous magazines and websites including Foreign Policy, New Eastern Europe, Gość Niedzielny, Do Rzeczy, Wprost. Former editor-in-chief of the Koncept magazine. Alumni of Russian Security Studies Certificate at Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security, Washington DC. Co-screenwriter of a documentary feature “Shadows of the Empire” inspired by his book “Borders of Dreamlands”. The movie shot in Kaliningrad Oblast, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabakh was presented during e.g. Krakow Film Festival, Transatlantic Festival, a special screening at Georgetown University in Washington and released in Polish cinemas.

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