This research explores how young Europeans perceive and respond to crises through the lens of collective memory. Drawing on oral group histories conducted in Austria, Serbia, Poland, Czech Republic, and with Ukrainian students residing in Poland, the research investigates how digital platforms mediate public-remembering processes and shape generational attitudes toward past and present wars, migration, climate change, and societal transformation. By analyzing diverse yet interconnected historical and democratic dispositions, as well as intragenerational cultures, the research provides an understanding of how Central and (South-)Eastern European youth navigate digital consumption, geopolitical disruptions, family-transmitted narratives, and online memory processes, and reinterpret their roles in mediatized democratic societies.