I Had No Childhood

A Trauma History of Deported Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna

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ID2606798
AuthorsOleksandr Kolomyichuk (0000-0003-2865-2396, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue2
Pages25-43
Publication date2023-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1736-6518 • E-ISSN: 2228-0987
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/jef-2023-0016
OpenAlexW4389541286
LanguageEN
References cited15

The article is devoted to the trauma history of Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna, part of the Boykivshchyna ethnographical region situated in modern Ukraine. Operation Vistula (1947-1950) was the forced resettlement of more than 150,000 Ukrainians and mixed Polish-Ukrainian families from the territory of Rzeszów, Lublin and Kraków provinces (Voivodeships) to the western and northern territories of Poland, leading to radical changes within this regional group. The article deals with the difficult experience of the resettlers not only in the context of psychological, but also cultural, trauma. According to the theory of Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka, three main phases of cultural trauma induced by resettlement have been highlighted and are outlined as strategies to cope with trauma: contemporary resettlers' preservation of native culture, religion and family tradition, and sharing memories of the past

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Historical trauma · Situated · Sociology · Ukrainian · Anthropology · Central European Literary Studies · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Nursing · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

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