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- Title
Kreuz Ostbahn/Krzyż Wielkopolski. Kreuzung deutscher und polnischer Erinnerung.
- Authors
Filipkowski, Piotr; Mitarbeit, Anna Wylegała; Borchers, Übersetzung Roland
- Abstract
The article discusses an oral history project undertaken among the citizenry of Krzyż Wielkopolski, Poland, formerly called Kreuz Ostbahn, Germany. Founded by Germans in the mid-19th century as what became a major railroad crossroads, the town's German residents were expelled in 1945, and Poles, who knew the town only from their forced labor there during World War II, took their place. The study examined the attitudes of the Slavic resettlers toward their displacement of the German residents, as well as the remembrances of those expelled Germans. Selections from those interviews are presented.
- Subjects
KRZYZ Wielkopolski (Poland); POLAND; GERMANY; ORAL history; FORCED migration; RESIDENTS; ORAL biography; DEPORTATION
- Publication
BIOS: Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0933-5315
- Publication type
Article