Hosting Refugees

Have you ever wondered why so many people opened their doors to complete strangers? Sure – the starry sky above me, the moral law within me, the humanitarian imperative. Anyone would have done the same, right? Only, not everyone did.

We are sitting in the Kino Nowe Horyzonty café, where Anastazja tells me about her experience of being hosted by a young couple in Wrocław a few weeks after the full-scale war began. I notice that during our hour-long conversation,

– The most difficult was seeing Luba in this limbo. She was constantly waiting to be with her husband, to get her normal life back. She was a truly strong woman, but she kept saying she was in such quicksand

Aleksandra Krzyżaniak, PhD candidate in our project, participated in the 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF 2025), which took place in Aberdeen, Scotland, under the conference theme (Un)writing at the beggining of June 2025. At

– This story had several acts. t’s hard to clearly define what that time of living together really was…We were there as if in a beautiful prison. I know how that sounds. And again, I have to say how deeply