dc.contributor.author | CICHOPEK, Anna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-12T12:03:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-12T12:03:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1830-7728 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/11293 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I tell the stories of Jewish survivors who made their way to their hometowns in
Poland and Slovakia between the fall of 1944 and summer 1948. I describe liberation by the
Soviet Army and attitudes toward the liberators in Poland and Slovakia. I ask what the
Jewish position was in the complex matrix of Polish-Russian relations in 1944 and 1945.
Then I follow the survivors during the first hours, days, and weeks after liberation. I
describe their pursuit of something to eat and wear and a place to sleep. Finally, I focus on
the journey home of Jewish survivors leaving for their hometowns in the hope of finding
living relatives and their homes intact. I look at all those experiences as a time of exchange
and confrontation between liberators and the liberated and among travelers on the road. I
argue that these encounters were not homogenously marked by violence, hatred, and mutual
resentment, but also by curiosity, solidarity, and indifference. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI MWP | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2009/09 | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.subject | Jewish history | en |
dc.subject | Polish-Jewish relations | en |
dc.subject | Slovak-Jewish relations | en |
dc.subject | modern East European history | en |
dc.subject | ethnic studies | en |
dc.subject | ethnic violence | en |
dc.subject | post-1945 studies | en |
dc.subject | Holocaust studies | en |
dc.subject | social history | en |
dc.title | After Liberation: the Journey Home of Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-46 | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
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