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Incompatible experiences : Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in Lviv under Soviet and German occupation, 1939-44

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Mick, Christoph (2011) Incompatible experiences : Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in Lviv under Soviet and German occupation, 1939-44. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.46 (No.2). pp. 336-363. doi:10.1177/0022009410392409 ISSN 0022-0094.

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Abstract

Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian memories of the war contradict each other. In Polish and Ukrainian collective memory the glorification of the heroic struggle of national resistance fighters against the oppressors makes it difficult to engage with the question of Polish and Ukrainian collaboration and participation in Nazi crimes. The essay traces these conflicting memories back to contradicting experiences. This is done using the example of the multiethnic Eastern Polish, now Western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Polish and Ukrainian eyewitnesses refer again and again to the collaboration of Jews with the Soviet occupiers, while Jewish accounts accuse Poles and Ukrainians of antisemitism, of having profited from Jewish suffering and of active participation in the murder of the Jewish population. Poles and Ukrainians accuse each other of having started the ethnic cleansing of the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands. This article uses wartime documents by eyewitnesses and focuses on key events which have a firm place in Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian collective memory: the reciprocal perceptions during the Soviet occupation, the pogroms which occurred during the transition from Soviet to German occupation, and the violent resolution of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the second half of the war.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Lʹviv (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century, Ukraine, Western -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1939-1941, Ukraine -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944, World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv, Collective memory -- Ukraine
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Contemporary History
Publisher: Sage Publications
ISSN: 0022-0094
Official Date: April 2011
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April 2011Published
Volume: Vol.46
Number: No.2
Page Range: pp. 336-363
DOI: 10.1177/0022009410392409
Status: Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 16 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access: 16 December 2015

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