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<p>The article is devoted to the trauma history of Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna, part of the Boykivshchyna ethnographical region situated in modern Ukraine. Operation Vistula (1947–1950) was the forced resettlement of more than 150,000 Ukrainians and mixed Polish-Ukrainian families from the territory of Rzeszów, Lublin and Kraków provinces (Voivodeships) to the western and northern territories of Poland, leading to radical changes within this regional group. The article deals with the difficult experience of the resettlers not only in the context of psychological, but also cultural, trauma. According to the theory of Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka, three main phases of cultural trauma induced by resettlement have been highlighted and are outlined as strategies to cope with trauma: contemporary resettlers’ preservation of native culture, religion and family tradition, and sharing memories of the past.</p>
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The article is devoted to the trauma history of Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna, part of the Boykivshchyna ethnographical region situated in modern Ukraine. Operation Vistula (1947–1950) was the forced resettlement of more than 150,000 Ukrainians and mixed Polish-Ukrainian families from the territory of Rzeszów, Lublin and Kraków provinces (Voivodeships) to the western and northern territories of Poland, leading to radical changes within this regional group. The article deals with the difficult experience of the resettlers not only in the context of psychological, but also cultural, trauma. According to the theory of Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka, three main phases of cultural trauma induced by resettlement have been highlighted and are outlined as strategies to cope with trauma: contemporary resettlers’ preservation of native culture, religion and family tradition, and sharing memories of the past.

“I Had No Childhood”: A Trauma History of Deported Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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The article is devoted to the trauma history of Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna, part of the Boykivshchyna ethnographical region situated in modern...

“I Had No Childhood”: A Trauma History of Deported Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna

Published Online: Dec 11, 2023

Page range: 25 - 43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0016

Keywords
trauma, deportation, Operation Vistula, Ukrainians, Western Boykivshchyna

© 2023 Oleksandr Kolomyichuk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

“I Had No Childhood”: A Trauma History of Deported Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna

Published Online: Dec 11, 2023

Page range: 25 - 43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0016

Keywordstrauma, deportation, Operation Vistula, Ukrainians, Western Boykivshchyna

© 2023 Oleksandr Kolomyichuk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
trauma, deportation, Operation Vistula, Ukrainians, Western Boykivshchyna