Polish Refugee Children in India
Personal Memory, Grassroots Activism, and Transnational Commemorative Diplomacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12969183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewa Stańczyk (0000-0001-5818-3821, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 38-54 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jeunesse Young People Texts Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1920-2601 • E-ISSN: 1920-261X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jeunesse.13.2.38 |
| OpenAlex | W4286329567 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This article explores the memory of nearly one thousand Polish child refugees who found safe haven in India during the Second World War. It discusses how from the 1970s onward, the former refugees attempted to sustain the memory of their exilic homeland, often with support from other memory actors in both Poland and India. Analyzing both personal testimonies and grassroots memory activism, this article investigates the intertwining of individual memory with wider memorial trends, such as vernacular, national, and transnational memory. By discussing the ways in which personal and familial memory of wartime childhood serve as a springboard for other commemorative initiatives, this article also examines how children and young people feature in public memory, both as memory actors and objects of commemoration. In doing so, not only do I ask broader questions about remembering children that are relevant to this special issue, but also provide a window into the vicissitudes of Polish politics of memory from the late 1940s to the present
Collective memory · Cultural memory · Diplomacy · Grassroots · Homeland · Media studies · Memory work · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
The Lost Children
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy
On the Edges of Whiteness
“Poland Is Not Lost While We Still Live”
The role of tourism in the production of cultural memory
The uses and the abuses of education about the Holocaust in Poland after 1989
The deportation of the polish population to the USSR, 1939–41
Moral Education Between Hope and Hopelessness
We Would Rather Drown Ourselves in Lake Victoria’
Class War or Ethnic Cleansing? Soviet Deportations of Polish Citizens from the Eastern Provinces of Poland, 1939–1941
Defending the “Good Name” of the Polish Nation
War Through Children's Eyes
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |