Social Anthropology of filling the Void: Poland and Ukraine after World War II

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Male, born 1933
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30066
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Slovita of Zolochiv district in Lviv oblast. The man remembered well the pre-war and war periods; the interview is full of details and names of fellow villagers or diverse nationalities. A narrator described in detail the pre-war interethnic community of the village Slovita, the landlord of the village and his fate. The man touched upon the topic of labor migration abroad during the interwar period: his father worked in Argentina on the verge of the 1920ies and 1930ies, just like many other villagers, and lost all the earnings during the co...
Female, born 1931
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30067
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the town Zolochiv in Lviv oblast. The woman told about her childhood years, the household, neighbours, education at school, and teachers. During the German occupation, the family was compelled to share the house with a German soldier who occupied one of the rooms. A separate topic was a ghetto in the town, hiding and exposing information about Jews. The woman recalls the Ukrainian underground in Zolochiv, which was active when she was a teenager: random meeting in the town, the stories of hiding the rebels, and the firing squads. More detailed were the...
Male, born 1927
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30068
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Trudovych, Zolochiv district in Lviv oblast. The narrator describes in detail various aspects of pre-war and war life; the conversation is full of details and personalities at the background of well-known events of the past. The man witnessed the entrance of the German army into Zolochiv, the burial of Sheptychky in Lviv, the mobilization of Ukrainian youth to the Soviet Army in 1944-1945. In 1945, the man was mobilized to the Soviet Army and served in the far East for almost eight years; in 1952, he moved to Lviv, and in 1960 – to Zolochiv...
Male, born 1925
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30069
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Osivtsi of Buchach district in Ternopil oblast. The interviewee’s daughter was present during the conversation, occasionally joined it, asking additional questions to her father and expanding on what he was saying. It was obvious that the man didn’t want to give many details of what he saw and survived; he mentioned he had already “told too much.” The narrator recalled working on the farm, the Polish landlord of the village, his participation in the “Polish war”, his wife and daughters who were arrested and sent to Siberia, a school organiz...
Female, born 1926
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30070
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Osivtsi, now Buchach district, whose parents died during World War II. The woman lived as an orphan together with her older brother until to her marriage. The conversation is abrupt and non-structured; the woman often complained of the now poor memory and, as a rule, just answered the interviewer’s questions. The interviewee’s granddaughter was present and occasionally joined the conversation. The narrator shared her memories of the pre-war landowner of the village, his attitude to the hired labor and fellow villagers, and the cohabitation ...
Female, born 1927
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30071
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Osivtsi, now Buchach district of Ternopil oblast. The grand grandson of the interviewee was present during the conversation and complemented it with his questions and explanations. The woman recalled briefly the landlord’s manor and the work of local people, education at school, friendly relations of his family with the Polish neighbours at the background of the Ukrainian-Polish conflict in the village, Polish and Jewish village communities, their religious life, the eviction of Jews and the relocation of local Polish population to Poland, ...
Female, born 1931
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30072
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
A woman was born in the village Stare Selo, Pidhaitsi district in Ternopil oblast. Since 1951 she has lived in Pidhaitsi. She studied in schools of Stare Selo and Pidhaitsi and the pedagogical institute in Kremenets, then worked as a teacher. The conversation is unstructured and contains a lot of details and personalities. Describing the pre-war childhood memories, she recalled the good relationships with the Polish neighbours, going to the Roman Catholic church on Roman Catholic Christmas, Polish carols. The leitmotif of the conversation is the Holocaust in Pidhaitsi. The woman witnessed a...
Male, born 1933
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30073
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Halych of Berezhany (now Pidhaitsi) district in Ternopil oblast. The man was born to a large family. He told about his education at school during the German occupation, the life of the Ukrainian community before the war, Ukrainian-Polish cohabitation, a few Jewish neighbours and their occupations, the Roman Catholic church in Pidhaitsi. A separate conversation thread was the eviction of the Polish population to Poland, the fate of their property and households, the resettlement of Ukrainians in Pidhaitsi and its neighbourhoods. The man witn...
Male, born 1922
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30074
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with the native resident of the village Perenivka, Rohatyn district. Considering the narrator's age and his excellent memory, the conversation has a vivid description of the pre-war, war and post-war life of the city Rohatyn and the neighbouring villages with numerous details and examples. The man was longing to learn and willing to escape the village: he first studied in Rohatyn school in the interwar period, then in the Soviet school between 1939 and 1941 and the German school of trade. Still, the man consciously gave up the acquired specialty and the ability to emigrate to b...
Male, born 1934
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30075
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Kniahynychi, Rohatyn district, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. The village is known as the place of active Ukrainian nationalist underground activity in the second part of the 1940ies. The father of the narrator, the member of OUN and UPA, was repressed in 1945 and died in exile. In 1947, the son, following the example of his father, became a member of the underground and remained there until 1951. To avoid eviction, the family was hiding at their relatives’ homes in various villages. The interview is full of details and names of members of the und...
Male, born 1925
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30076
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Rydvanivka, Rohatyn district in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast who comes from a Polish-Ukrainian family. The relatives of his mother, Polish by nationality, and father, Ukrainian, didn’t approve of the interethnic marriage. The man lost his parents as a child and was brought up by his sister. He was arrested in 1947 and returned to Rohatyn in 1954 after serving his sentence. The conversation abounds with details, names of peers and fellow villagers. The narrator tells in detail about the pre-war life of the village, rural life, aggravation of the P...
Female, born 1923
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30077
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Stratyn, Rohatyn district in Ivano Frankivsk oblast. The narrator and her parents were repressed by the Soviet government in 1944; her father died in exile in Arkhangelsk and the mother managed to escape and returned. The woman spent 17 years in exile, married another political prisoner there, and gave birth to two children. The narrator remembered a lot of Jewish neighbours of the village Stratyn and described in detail their families, places of residence, occupations and traditions. During the German occupation, all Jews in Stratyn – firs...
Female, born 1933
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30078
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the town Zbarazh and, starting 1950, the resident of the town Tovste, now Zalishchyky district in Ternopil oblast. The war, the mobilization of the father to the Soviet army, hard work in the household, poverty and hunger all made the childhood years of the woman. She tells in detail about her education in Zbarazh in the post-war years, teachers, getting secondary education, which let her graduate from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lviv University. The woman shared her memories of the pre-war life of Ukrainians in Zbarazh: religious p...
Female, born 1930
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30079
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Vorvulyntsi, Zalishchyky district of Ternopil oblast. The woman told about her family, education at school, pre-war village community, and shared her childhood memories about the Ukrainian cultural and national life of the village. During the German occupation, the woman studied in the nearby town Tovste and witnessed the Jews staying in a ghetto in the village Holovchyntsi; she recalls the stories of people hiding and giving away Jews. A large part of the interview was concerned with the restoration of the Soviet government and post-war ye...
Female, born 1930
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30080
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Tovste, Zalishchyky district of Ternopil oblast. The woman graduated from accounting courses in Chortkiv and worked as a statistician in a hospital. The interviewee’s daughter was present during the interview and often joined the conversation, expanding on what her mother was saying and adding comments of her own. The interviewee often complained of her now poor memory. She told the history of her family. The father returned from work in the United States and had a large household in the village centre with a house lightning and plumbing, w...
Male, born 1927
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30081
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Lytyachi (Letyache), now Zalishchyky district of Ternopil oblast. Keen on learning and motivated by his family, the man graduated from school in the neighbouring town Chernelytsi, studied in Buchach, in the pedagogical school in Kremenets, pedagogical institutes in Chernivtsi and Ternopil; thus, in 1949, he started teaching in Tovste and Letyache. The narration is informative, well-structured, and full of details. The narration starts with the history of the interviewee’s father who took part in the First World War and mobilization of volun...
Female, born 1932
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30082
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native and permanent resident of the town Tovste, now Zalishchyky district of Ternopil oblast. The interviewee comes from an Ukrainian-Polish family (grandfather, Polish by nationality, has come to the village during the construction of the railway and married a local Ukrainian girl), where both Polish and Ukrainian religious holidays were celebrated. Although the woman was born to an Ukrainian-Polish family, he emphasizes that she attended a Ukrainian school and Greek Catholic church. All relatives-Poles were evicted to Poland in 1946. Memories of the pre-war and war ye...
Female, born 1934
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30083
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Tataryntsi, now Lanivtsi district of Ternopil oblast. The narrator moved to Tovste in 1952 to work as a nurse; this is why she started the conversation by sharing her insights into the status and perspectives of Soviet medicine in the town during the Soviet times. The woman described in detail her childhood memories of pre-war life of the village Tataryntsi located on the Polish-Soviet border. Even more detailed were the memories of the German occupation, which she remembers as Germans’ burning the villages and sending people to work in Ger...
Female, born 1927
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30084
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a native resident of the village Vyshnivchuk, now Terebovlya district of Ternopil oblast. A woman was an orphan raised by her older sister. An interview is full of numerous details, people’s names, the exact location of the important for the village sites. The narrator tells in detail about the Jewish section of the village, which is now gone, names numerous Jewish villagers and their occupations. Brief is the story of a ghetto creation and shootings of Jews near the town, which the woman retells from what she heard from others. Childhood memories contain lots of details a...
Female, born 1927
- Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
- 30085
- English, Ukrainian
- Updated 1 year ago
An interview with a woman born in the village Ushnya, Olesko, now Zolochiv district of Lviv oblast. The woman was born to the Ukrainian-Polish family; she told about the pre-war village community, numerous Polish and several Jewish families, their peaceful interethnic cohabitation. The interviewee tells briefly about education at school, the establishment of the Soviet government in 1939 and shootings of prisoners in Zolochiv before the departure, German occupation and hiding not to be taken to work in Germany (a relative arranged for work in Lviv for the interviewee to avoid the eviction),...