Interview: Male, born 1933 | Urban Media Archive

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ID:: 30073
Description:: 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 witnessed the creation of a ghetto in Pidhaitsi when he was a boy, a pupil of a school in Pidhaitsi. For the man, the memories of the Jews from Pidhaitsi are the memories of their partly preserved cemetery, as well as of the Synagogue and how it was used during the Soviet times. More detailed are the memories of post-war life: repressions of the Soviet government, forced collectivization, teachers coming to work from the Eastern regions.
Recorded in Pidhaitsi. The interviewer – Anna Wylegała.
Collection:: Social Anthropology of filling the Void: Poland and Ukraine after World War II