Interviews

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• history-of-one-street-boho
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 1 year ago

The ensemble of Bohomoltsia Street was built in 1904-1908 by Ivan Levynskyy’s architectural and construction bureau and is a great example of Secession in Lviv. This small and cozy street that was designed for the city’s middle class witnessed the turbulence of the 20th century and can be used as a case study for tracking down Lviv’s past. The project “Lviv in the 20th Century: The History of One Street” was one of the first oral history studies implemented by the Center for Urban History. It was initially entitled “The Oral History of Bohomoltsia Street” and aimed to document the stories o...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• pustka
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 1 year ago

The central concept of the research project is «social void», a phenomenon that was characteristic of Central and Eastern Europe during and immediately after World War II as a result of mass ethnic cleansing, political revolutions, forced displacement and migration. The project focuses both on the material dimension of post-war social change (e.g. acquisition of property) and the subjective sphere of social practices and relationships. His goal was to examine the processes of replacing the missing elements of social life with local communities of Poland and Ukraine. The interviews conducted...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• search-for-home-pidzamche
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 1 year ago

The project “The Search for Home in Postwar Lviv: The Experience of Pidzamche, 1944-1960” aimed to illuminate one of the most complicated pages in the history of contemporary Lviv – its transformation from the frontier Polish city of Lwόw and German-occupied Lemberg into a Soviet and then Ukrainian city. This traumatic and controversial experience of the city’s radical transformation by the Soviets is presented through the stories of various people who began their new postwar life in Lviv’s district of Pidzamche. The project aspired to ‘capture’ the life pathways of Pidzamche’s inhabitants ...