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Friedensimpuls

the soul of a house
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The history
lives in the walls

Become a participant and help build the history of a building — an address, the people who lived there, their story, and the documents that carry it. Becoming still, and receiving what once happened where you stand.

why we gather

The work is the other's story

Here we research not our own history but the other's. A German traces the lives of the Jews driven from a house; an Israeli, the Palestinians of a village emptied in 1948. By tending the roots of the other, we begin to restore our own — and to break the long circle of perpetrator and victim.

Help the other recover their roots — for the recovery of your own.

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” — Simone Weil

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Becoming part of the impulse

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your webs

Your webs

A web begins at one place. Add the places around it — homes, where people fled, what became of them — and follow the threads outward.

You haven't started a web yet. Begin with one place and follow the threads.
web

Your web

You don't have a place yet. Start one and slowly build up its history — you can always come back and keep writing.
new place

The history of this house

↗ Documenting a place affected by the Nakba?
Explore Zochrot's Nakba Map — names, locations and history of some 500 Palestinian localities.

names & families connected to this building

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the web grows

How others are building

The places your fellow members are remembering — their progress, not their private story or documents. Let it inspire your own web.

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what has been mapped

The map of places

Begin at one place and follow a single thread — gently, for the web is gossamer and can break. Homes, places of refuge, villages: not separate categories, but one web of places. Each place that is remembered is a knot; every place you add, another thread.

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remembering further — the Nakba

Zochrot — the Nakba map

Alongside the houses of Vienna, this is the work of remembering places in another land: Zochrot's map of some 500 Palestinian localities depopulated or destroyed in 1948. The same discipline — naming a place, and what happened there.

Open the Zochrot Nakba map ↗

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What the participants are building

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the mission

Restore the roots of the other

As the peace impulse grows, I invite you to be inspired by my work of Web Watching, and to dive into the archives of your own neighbourhood to retell the stories of those who were unlawfully expelled, or even tragically killed.

As this work is part of my academic journey, as a doctoral student in reconciliation studies, I have written an essay on why human catastrophes such as the Holocaust and the Nakba should be deconstructed by everyday people.

The key of the peace impulse is this: by researching the history of the tragedy of the other, we can re-establish connection, look into the roles our ancestors played, and heal our stories together, here and now.

The moral imperative is simple: if you help restore the roots and stories of the other, you become able to regain peace and self-worth — and to become an agent of peace in your own community.

Help the other recover their roots — for the recovery of your own.

— Simon van den Berg · doctoral researcher in reconciliation studies

a place remembered


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Friedensimpuls · the soul of a house