%0 Book
%A Anna Wylegała
%D 2019
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2191-3528
%@ 9783653070040
%T Displaced Memories
%B Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine
%R 10.3726/b15815
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068709
%X 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.
%K Deportation and resettlement, Politics of memory, Holocaust and ethnic cleansing, Polish-Ukrainian conflict, Second World War, Collective Identity
%G English