The new, seventh issue of the cultural quarterly “Fabryka Silesia,” marking the centenary of the Great War, tells the story of the end of the old 19th-century world in Upper Silesia and the birth of the new, 20th-century one. It is an issue about a world that no longer exists. Nevertheless, Upper Silesia before World War I left many traces, including in the sphere of culture, mythology, and memory…