Information about the object:
Wikszany is a village in Romania's Bukovina region. The Polish community, which has existed here since the mid-19th century, is becoming less and less numerous, and the Polish heritage can be described as disappearing. Catholic-Orthodox cemeteries and the so-called old Polish cemetery with Polish tombstones.

Completed works:
The project planned a series of activities related to documentation and field inventory, space cleaning, collection of oral information about the documented objects, and education and dissemination of knowledge about Polish cultural heritage in Bukovina, Romania. Activities were geared towards networking and social memory. Volunteers were experts on Bukovina, students of the University of Zielona Góra and members of the "Głogowska Edukacja Kresowa" Association. The collected materials will be available in the database of the Polonica Institute, will be presented at six meetings in real and virtual space, and a website presenting the effects of the project and a report on it will be created.

The work was completed in October 2023.

Funding: Polonica Institute programme "Polish cultural heritage abroad - volunteering"

More about the project: https://polonika.pl/

• Stowarzyszenie "Głogowska Edukacja Kresowa", realizacja w roku 2023.