„Tacy właśnie nocni ludzie” – działalność partyzantów i jej reperkusje w pamięci mieszkańców Surmaczówki i Zapałowa
‘Just such night people’. The Activity of the Partisans and Its Repercussions in the Memory of Surmaczówka and Zapałów Residents

Author(s): Piotr Przybysz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: partisans; army; fear; Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); memory; death; war; postwar period
Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to anthropologically analyze the memories of the activities of partisan groups in the Jarosław District in the postwar period. I am primarily interested in the perspective of ordinary people and their childhood memories of life in the shadow of the activities of partisans and the Polish Army (WP). Using evoked sources – ethnographic interviews conducted with residents of Surmaczówka and Zapałów, and found sources – documents from the archives of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), I seek to understand the situation in which the residents of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland found themselves in 1944–1947. I try to describe and explain the social conditions of the activities of partisans and the Polish Army (WP) and the relationship between these forces and the local population. At the same time, I consider the broader socio-cultural context specific to the postwar period, in which I am helped by the latest works of historians dealing with this poorly studied period of Polish history.

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