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This edited volume has benefited from the input of a number of organizations and individuals to whom we would like to express our deep gratitude. The main part of the book was previously published as a special issue of Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) entitled Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes. Several chapters have their beginning in the international project The Memory of Vanished Population Groups in Today’s East in Central European Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in L’viv, Chernivtsi, Chişinău and Wrocław conducted between 2010 and 2014 at Lund University and coordinated by Dr Bo Larsson. The project was affiliated with the Centre for European Studies and financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Special thanks are thus directed toward these two organizations whose generous support also made possible publication of another book that presents findings of the project, At Home or Abroad? Chişinău, Chernivtsi, L’viv and Wrocław: Living with Historical Changes to Borders and National Identities (edited by Bo Larsson, Universus Academic Press, 2020). Participants of the project also gratefully acknowledge the grant F13-0011:1 issued by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. It enabled organization of the pre-publication workshop Cultural Diversity in East-Central European Borderlands: Cityscapes, Memories, People held in Lund in 2013.

We are grateful to Dr Andreas Umland, the editor of the book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and Valerie Lange, a commissioning editor of ibidem Verlag, for their encouragement to develop the special issue into a full-fledged book. Likewise, we gratefully acknowledge the helpful suggestions of several academic colleagues who provided peer-reviews of the chapters that initially appeared in the JSPPS issue.

In the process of work on their respective chapters several contributors obtained financial and other support for which they wish to thank a number of organizations and individuals.

Eleonora Narvselius expresses her gratitude to Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig for the grant that permitted the advancement and conclusion of the introductory chapter. Narvselius’ other contribution to the volume, a case study of the commemoration of Polish academics murdered in wartime Lviv, was previously published in Swedish in the academic journal Nordisk Østforum. A grant from the Erik Philip-Sörensen Foundation made this research possible and was thus much appreciated. Special thanks go to Prof. John Czaplicka for the endorsement of this publishing project at its early stage.

Hana Cervinkova and Juliet Golden would like to thank Tadeusz Włodarczak for generously sharing his recollections of the unique experience (1982–97) of protecting and restoring the Old Jewish Cemetery of Wrocław.

An earlier version of Gaëlle Fisher’s chapter was initially part of a special issue, Bukovina and Bukovinians after the Second World War. She would like to thank the journal East European Politics and Societies for permission to reprint and the editors of this volume and, in particular, Eleonora Narvselius for the opportunity to publish a revised version of this study.

Anastasia Felcher’s research was made possible by grant no. 17-18-01589 obtained from the Russian Science Foundation and held at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (INION RAN). Alexandr Voronovici’s case study was also supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant 17-18-01589.

Finally, we would like to give our sincere thanks to designer Olena Myshanska, who provided us with the original cover image that excellently captures the tenor of the book.

ELEONORA NARVSELIUS

JULIE FEDOR