Displaced Memories : Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine
The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Żółkiew) and Polish Krzyż (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many Europea...
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| Main Authors: | Wylegała, Anna (Author) |
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| Format: | Online-Resource |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Bern : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019 |
| Series: | Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics
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| Online Access: | kostenfrei kostenfrei |
| Summary: | The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Żółkiew) and Polish Krzyż (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war ethnic cleansing and displacement, they lost almost all of their pre-war inhabitants and were repopulated by new people. Based on more than 150 oral history interviews, the book describes the process of reconstruction of social microcosm, involving the reader in a journey through the lives of real people entangled in the dramatic historical events of the 20th century |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (380 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783653070040 9783631712443 9783631712450 9783631678718 |
| Access: | Open Access |
