Displaced Memories (Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Studies In History, Memory And Politics)

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 Zólkiew) and Polish Krzyz (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.

• | Author: Anna Wylegala
• | Publisher: Peter Lang
• | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 380 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3631678711
• | ISBN-13: 9783631678718