CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Abibok, Yuliya |
|---|---|
| Title | Victims, Perpetrators and "Our Guys": Interethnic Relations and Mass Violence in Eastern Galicia, 1939-1945 |
| Summary | This research is an initial product of my attempt to look at the history of World War II, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and the Holocaust from a very local and very private perspective. I conducted it in a Ukrainian-Polish borderland, in Eastern Galicia, one of the bloodiest scenes of the period of 1939-1944, in a rural area – the terrain usually overlooked by WWII and Holocaust historians. In this work, I am debating the common approach to analysing events and personal actions of that period according to the ethnicity of the actors. By looking closely at several cases of Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, and Jews, I am demonstrating that the ethnic categories were often either non-existent for the actors or fluid and were often forcefully imposed rather than willingly accepted. The evidence I provide here mainly consists of written testimonies, mostly from the late 1940s, Polish, Ukrainian, Soviet, and Western German investigation and court documents from the same period, and oral interviews I collected in Ukraine and Poland in 2017-2019. |
| Supervisor | Felcher Anastasia |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/abibok_yuliya.pdf |
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