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Voices on War and Genocide : Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town / ed. by Omer Bartov.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: War and Genocide ; 30Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789207194
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/4779 23
LOC classification:
  • D557.B88 V63 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Language, Place, and Personal Names -- Introduction -- The Accounts -- Antoni Siewiński Memories of Buczacz and Jazłowiec during the Great War, 1914–20 -- Viktor Petrykevych Written in Stanyslaviv and Buchach, 1941–44 With additional notes from Stryi, Drohobych, and Kolomyya, 1944–56 -- Moshe Wizinger Written in Cyprus, 1947 -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Language, Place, and Personal Names -- Introduction -- The Accounts -- Antoni Siewiński Memories of Buczacz and Jazłowiec during the Great War, 1914–20 -- Viktor Petrykevych Written in Stanyslaviv and Buchach, 1941–44 With additional notes from Stryi, Drohobych, and Kolomyya, 1944–56 -- Moshe Wizinger Written in Cyprus, 1947 -- Bibliography -- Index

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Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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