Bohaterowie epok w pamięci zbiorowej dwudziestowiecznego Lublina
Heroes of Various Epochs in the Collective Memory of the 20th Century Lublin

Summary/Abstract: The beginning of the 20th century brought the world the First World War and the break-up of European powers. It also brought Poland independence, after more than one hundred and twenty years when it had been partitioned between three neighboring empires. A large increase in the number of Lublin’s inhabitants, along with the development of the area of the city that followed the increase, caused an increase in the number of newly designed streets. The new lines of communication needed new names. Several, or even several dozen streets came into existence at one time, which favored giving them names connected with history. Additionally, the area of the town increased by absorbing the neighboring villages whose streets already had names. This caused overlapping of the names, which, in turn, made the town authorities solve the problem by giving one of the streets a new name. In the course of the 20th century the political situation in Poland changed, and this influenced the life of Lublin. Each new authority tried to make a sign of its presence in the town by organizing places of collective memory. Names of streets are a special area in the topography of the town, in which historical memory has always been handed down to next generations. (...)

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