Oral stories
- ID:
- 30076
- Description:
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An interview with a native resident of the village Rydvanivka, Rohatyn district in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast who comes from a Polish-Ukrainian family. The relatives of his mother, Polish by nationality, and father, Ukrainian, didn’t approve of the interethnic marriage. The man lost his parents as a child and was brought up by his sister. He was arrested in 1947 and returned to Rohatyn in 1954 after serving his sentence. The conversation abounds with details, names of peers and fellow villagers. The narrator tells in detail about the pre-war life of the village, rural life, aggravation of the Polish-Ukrainian opposition and forced eviction of the Poles to Poland, the restoration of the Soviet power in the post-war years and the opposition of the Ukrainian nationalist underground, help the locals provided to the rebels, Ukrainians relocated from Poland. The interviewee gives some great examples to illustrate the aggravation of the interpersonal relationships, the moments of personal choice, the unfairness of death, violence, as well as paint the portraits of the Soviet governor, a military man and a member of the Ukrainian underground. A separate conversation thread is the memories of the Holocaust of Jews in Rohatyn. The man recalled the Jewish quarter in the town, the creation and location of a ghetto, hidings, the location and the process of firing squads, the fate of the Jewish property.
Recorded in Rohatyn. The interviewer – Marta Havryshko. - Collection:
- Social Anthropology of filling the Void: Poland and Ukraine after World War II
