Displaced Memories
| Titel: | Displaced Memories : Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Bern : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2019 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (380 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 9783653070040 ; 9783631712443 ; 9783631712450 ; 9783631678718 |
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.
