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Displaced Memories

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 Author: Wylegala, Anna
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2021
Subjects:
Collective Identity
Deportation and resettlement
Displaced
Forgetting
Galicji
Holocaust and ethnic cleansing
Kopernika
Memories
Mikołaja
Naukowe
Odzyskanych
pamięć
pamięci
Poland
Polish-Ukrainian conflict
Politics of memory
polskich
Post
Przesiedlenia
przykładzie
Remembering
Second World War
społecznej
Studium
Ukraine
ukraińskiej
Uniwersytetu
Wydawnictwo
Wylegala
Ziem
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History
Online Access:ONIX_20210512_9783653070040_11
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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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