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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Autores principales:Wylegała, Anna (Autor)
Formato: Online-Resource
Lenguaje:English
Publicado:Bern : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019
Colección:Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics 26
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 Online-Ressource (380 p.)
ISBN:9783653070040
9783631712443
9783631712450
9783631678718
Acceso:Open Access