The Family – house speaker in poetry and children’s and youth’s war memoirs at the routes of exile (1939–1945) Cover Image

Rodzina – dom ojczysty w poezji i wojennych wspomnieniach dzieci i młodzieży na tułaczych szlakach (1939–1945)
The Family – house speaker in poetry and children’s and youth’s war memoirs at the routes of exile (1939–1945)

Author(s): Edyta Sadowska
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Communication studies, Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: family; deportation; “paradise lost”; fatherland

Summary/Abstract: The study, in outline, describes the issue of the wanderings of Polish deportee’s children in the Soviet territory, which followed the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939. The author ponders the fate of the deportees in the Near and the Middle East, for whom the home and the family became a “paradise lost”. The idea“fatherland” is present in poetry and war memories of children and young people in exile.These memories, published in the Polish press in exile, are true reflection of experience,joy and painful reminiscences.

  • Issue Year: XII/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 359-381
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English, Polish