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Luxembourg’s Human Migration Documentation Centre (Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines - CDMH) has announced details of a current exhibition and an upcoming day of commemoration in Dudelange.

CDMH is currently hosting an exhibition on "Fruit trees, railway tunnels and seamless tubes. Luxembourg presence in Romania (1880-1950)" at Gare-Usines de Dudelange. The exhibition is part of the annual General Assembly of the Association of European Migration Institutions and of a partnership with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) of the University of Luxembourg.

The project coordinated by Philippe Henri Blasen, postdoctoral researcher at C2DH, reveals a Luxembourg presence in Romania, largely unknown until now. This migration is believed to have occurred through the movement of workers in international professional networks, almost entirely dissolved at the time of the Cold War. The exhibition honours engineers and similar professionals (railways, steel industry, glass industry, oil industry) and horticulturists. It also pays tribute to women, who worked mainly in education.

The exhibition is open every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday until Sunday 16 February 2025, from 15:00 to 18:00 (except for CDMH winter closure period from 22 December 2024 to 5 January 2025).

Moreover, on Sunday 10 November 2024 at 11:00, CDMH is holding a commemorative event ("No Pasarán" Day 2024) to honour the brigadiers who left Luxembourg for the Spanish War (1936-1938). Interested parties are asked to meet in front of the NO PASARÁN monument at Gare-Usines de Dudelange.

Programme

11:00: Welcome address from Paca Rimbau Hernández, President of Friends of the International Brigades-Luxembourg (ABI-L), followed by speeches from: Dan Biancalana, Mayor of the City of Dudelange; Mars Di Bartolomeo, Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies (parliament); Melanie Noesen, Förderverein Gedenkstätte KZ Hinzert e.V (Hinzert Concentration Camp Memorial Association); António Paiva, Association of Portuguese Political Exiles.
Wreath-laying.
Special collaboration: Heraldo Salas, Latin American singer

12:00: Reception offered by the City of Dudelange

15:30: Presentation of the book Des Frontières et des Femmes (ed. Chèvre-feuille étoilée, 2024), by author Manuela Parra

For further information, see: https://www.cdmh.lu