UID:
kobvindex_HPB1117633325
Format:
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (378 pages)).
ISBN:
9783653070040
,
365307004X
,
3631712448
,
9783631712450
,
3631712456
,
9783631712443
Series Statement:
Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik = Studies in history, memory and politics ; Bd./Vol. 26
Content:
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
Note:
Dramatis personae: history and memory -- Resettlement and the first phase of adaptation -- The creation of a new community and social integration -- Resettlement and identity -- Remembering the absent: Germans and German heritage in Krzyz -- Remembering the absent: Jews and Jewish heritage in Zhovkva -- Remembering the absent: Poles and Polish heritage in Zhovkva -- Between heroes and traitors: the UPA and the Soviets in Zhovkva -- A land without heroes: problems of the memory canon in Krzyz
Additional Edition:
Print version: Displaced memories. Berlin : Peter Lang, [2019] ISBN 9783631678718
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
URL:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020717697
