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

By Anna Wylegala, Simon Lewis, Anna Wylegała

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 Ż lkiew) 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631678711
• ISBN13: 9783631678718
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"