Franziska Davies is a researcher at the Leibniz-Insitute for Contemporary History Potsdam and co- president of the German-Ukrainian Society – For our freedom and yours. Her research focuses on the modern history of Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. In 2023, she published the edited volume Ukraine in Europe: Dream and Trauma of a Nation. She is currently working on a book on the downfall of the Soviet Union and the remaking of Europe, told from a distinctly Ukrainian-Polish perspective.