STUDIES: Remembrance (or Lack of It) on the Ruins. The Holocaust of the Żółkiew Jews in the Consciousness of New Residents of the Town Cover Image

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STUDIES: Remembrance (or Lack of It) on the Ruins. The Holocaust of the Żółkiew Jews in the Consciousness of New Residents of the Town

Author(s): Anna Wylegała
Subject(s): History
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Holocaust in the Polish Eastern Borderlands; Holocaust remembrance; social memory; Polish-Jewish relations; Polish-Ukrainian relations

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Holocaust memory in Ukrainian Galicia (using the example of Żółkiew near Lvov). Qualitative research – biographical and in-depth interviews – allowed for an analysis of that memory on various levels and in relation to such factors as: official Soviet memory, family accounts, sovereign Ukraine’ historical policy and the Jewish Diaspora’s initiatives to commemorate the Holocaust. The analysis revealed the existence of highly varied memory groups, whose major determinants are: family’s origins and its lot during the war as well as the respondent’s age group.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 144-169
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish