Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wylegala, Anna

Titel

Displaced Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine

Ist Teil von

• Polish Sociological Review, 2019, Vol.26 (212), p.518-518

Auflage

New edition.

Ort / Verlag

Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.