Trauma of Bystanders, Trauma of Victims? Holocaust and Massacres of Poles in memory of people born in Eastern Galicia / Trauma świadka, trauma ofiary? Holokaust i antypolska akcja w pamięci osób urodzonych w Galicji Wschodniej

Abstract

The article aims to show the trauma bystanders as well as the trauma victims of the World War 2. Based on the examples taken from field research conducted in Poland and Ukraine, the author presents various aspects of wartime trauma and its effects. Biographical narratives of people born in the 1930s in Eastern Galicia describe the trauma bystanders of Holocaust as well as the trauma victims of Massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia carried out by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943–1945.

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Marcelina Jakimowicz

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  • EP ID EP687893
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.4467/254395379EPT.18.010.11169
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Marcelina Jakimowicz (2018). Trauma of Bystanders, Trauma of Victims? Holocaust and Massacres of Poles in memory of people born in Eastern Galicia / Trauma świadka, trauma ofiary? Holokaust i antypolska akcja w pamięci osób urodzonych w Galicji Wschodniej. Etnografia. Praktyki. Teorie. Doświadczenia / Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences, 4(4), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-687893