The palace in Mordy has recently been reclaimed by the heirs of Henryk Przewłocki, the last pre-war landowner of the Mordy estate. It is the will of the family that this historical complex, after being renovated, would serve the wide public and the local community as the Eastern House. The Eastern House.
Przewłocki's heirs signed a letter of intent with the management of KARTA Center in Warsaw. The letter declared that the returned and renovated manor house and its surroundings would become a place for social activities and dialogue between nations.Through the series of debates, conferences, as well as by the means of publications and grant support for the researchers and artists we would like to approach the hitherto unsettled historical controversies between the nations of Eastern Europe, mainly in the XXth century. It is also intended to initiate documentation and museum work on history of the landed gentry, relations between neighboring communities in the region, and the fate of national minorities.
The Eastern House The task of the Eastern European House is to create an international circle of cooperation that would be a space for dialogue between nations whose historical conflicts still cannot be settled. The House in Mordy has to be an example and model of such peaceful communication that recalls traumas of past in order to weaken, by joint efforts, their destructive power in the present. By the means of public diplomacy it is aimed to prove that the tensions of history can be neutralized, and even the nations, most acutely conflicted in past, can communicate in hope for genuine reconciliation.
