![Везенков, А. 9 септември 1944 г.](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2015_21948.jpg)
Везенков, А. 9 септември 1944 г.
A presentation of “9th of September 1944” by Aleksander Vezenkov
More...We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
A presentation of “9th of September 1944” by Aleksander Vezenkov
More...
Every questioning of a witness by a prosecutor is of a legal and formal nature. Its aim is to determine “what really happened”. A historian, if interested not only in reconstruction of the course of events, strives to get to know the world of the witness he or she is interviewing. These aims determine the methods, but do not exclude learning from each other’s experience, as well as results of investigations, inquiries and research. The same person can be the subject of interest for a narrative; a prosecutor and a historian can complement each other in their findings. This article represents a contribution to the discussion on the differences in methodology in the work of historians and prosecutors, as well as the importance of interviews with witnesses for the research on contemporary history.
More...
The biographical account of Barbara Gołajewska-Chudzikiewicz was recorded in 2007 as a part of the documentary project “The Forgotten Witnesses to the 20th century” run by the KARTA Centre and the History Meeting House. The narrator tells the story of her life, as well as the story of her family, starting in 1918. As the material is very extensive, in this publication only the fragments regarding the years 1918–1945 are presented. The narrative, in a manner typical for landed gentry of the Kielce region, contains a description of Ms Gołajewska-Chudzikiewicz’s childhood and family life in a small landed estate of Bieganów in the times of the Second Polish Republic. It gives insight into the course of her education, upbringing of children and young people in a landowning family, relations between the servants and the landowners, everyday life in the manor house, along with civilization difficulties, celebrating of holidays, the manor-village relations, and finally the general way the landed family functioned between the countryside and the city. The next important part of the narrative starts with the outbreak of WWII and conveys the everyday life of the manor under German occupation in the General-Government. The narrator describes the functions of the Polish manor in occupation conditions: helping and giving shelter to those displaced from the territories incorporated to the Third Reich, helping the Warsaw Uprising fugitive fighters, active participation in the Home Army structures, and relations with the German invader, as well as food and clothes extortions run by armed groups of unknown provenance, and confrontation with the Soviet army entering from the East.
More...
Leszek Wisłocki is a famous music theorist and composer. For many years he has been a Professor at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. However, before he started working for the Academy, he spent some time living in Jelenia Góra, where for 4 years he attended the Stefan Żeromski Co-educational Gymnasium and Grammar School. These school years are the subject of Wisłocki’s account. It is a detailed description of Professor’s pre-war life, as well as his and his family’s war experience, and in particular of his father’s military service. Wisłocki clearly explains the reasons for his family coming to Lower Silesia and settling in Jelenia Góra. Equally clearly Wisłocki recalls his teachers, school friends and important events which influenced the school life as well as the life of the local society, such as existence of the underground independence movement in 1949. He tells anecdotes about excursions to the mountains or his first performances as a musician staged at school. Wisłocki underlines the importance of this first, post-war period – not only for him, but also for his friends who later, having graduated from grammar school, went on to become professors or achieved other socially significant posts. Finally, Professors pays a lot of attention to returns and school relations – still vivid and close after more than seven decades. Annual school reunions and extensive correspondence exchanged by the ex-pupils serves as a proof that the short period of education, which lasted only 4 years, had a great impact on the life of this generation.
More...
The paper presents an individual and group reaction of the population in the town of Pernik during the earthquake of May 22, 2012, in the context of its local and national projection. The text analyzes the causes of the earthquake and the efficacy of the meas¬ures for prevention and overcoming the results of the disaster in the context of their official interpretation and on the level of everyday culture. The conclusions show the shaken trust of the Bulgarian in the political and economic stability of the state; the crisis of life, including as a result of a natural disaster, is comprehended as something permanent and inextricable. The opinion that over the last several years in Bulgaria the complete lack of security in national aspect should be measured on the Richter scale rather than the earthquakes settled permanently in the public space in the region.
More...
The functioning of informal practices as a part of the labour culture and entrepreneurship in two different economic and political regimes is discussed in view of the case of the Borovets Resort. This paper focuses attention on the participation of women in the tourist business in the resort and discusses the thesis that Bulgarian women working in the sphere of tourism are among the ‘winners’ in the transition, in contrast to men working in other fields of the economy. The ethnographic research carried out in the resort in the winter and summer of 2012 and the comparison with previous observations in the same field do not provide evidence to support such a thesis. Viewed in the broader socioeconomic context, the situation of women employed in the tourism sector does not differ considerably from the situation of women employed in other spheres. They live within and are a part of the same gender regime: a common gender ideology and culture. The problematic development of the formal economy, including the field of tourism (regarded as successful), compels men as well as women to search for additional income by working in the informal sector (e.g. the household farm, hourly labour without a contract, self-employment, and so on). Women retain high employment by combining work in the formal and informal economy; however, their situation could hardly be considered a ‘success’. Those working in hotels, the self-employed, and those employed in family businesses evaluate the situation as ‘coping’ or ‘surviving’ in a long-term and harsh economic situation. In order to overcome the unpredictability of this situation, they use all available resources – their cultural, social, and economic capital.Some of the informal practices which are known from the socialist period lose their meaning under the conditions of the new market economy and free access to goods, but others – such as party patronage, personal loyalty, and purchasing access to sources of income – gain new power and produce an exclusion (of those who are ‘not our people’) from the presumably free market and widely accessible formal procedures.
More...
This paper presents a study of the formation and transformation of subcultural group identity in postsocialist Bulgaria. A number of stylistic orientations are presented (punk, hardcore, skinhead, casual), along with related ideological dispositions (‘extreme left’, ‘extreme right’, apolitical). Both paint a real picture of the development of these youth movements as being bound to a distinct class background and to a specific form of opposing the dominant culture. The maintenance of subcultural identity is related to several compulsory prerequisites: clothes, music, presence in a defined real or virtual space, and the practising of specific activities (having tattoos, attending concerts and/or football games, and participating in street protests). The current field material is based on participant observation in the groups carried out in Plovdiv between January and October 2012. In addition, the author discusses some of the prejudices connected to the distinctiveness of these subgroups, whose access to work and education is dif¬ficult. The study is part of the project ‘Youth Subcultures in Postsocialist Bulgaria’, financed by the National Science Fund’s ‘Young Scholars – 2011’ competition.
More...
Folkloristic studies of oral histories in colloquial circulation emphasize the value of narrative oral sources (direct transmission), as they enable qualitative analysis of narrative interviews, subsequently used by various scholarly disciplines. The experiences of folklorists significantly facilitate and enrich the interpretation of the processes of formation and functioning of cultural communities and, above all, allow one to discern reasons for the qualitative differences in such interpretations, the differences ascribable to the contemporary context of reporting knowledge about past events.
More...
I have been involved in oral history for many years, on many levels – as a practitioner, as a teacher, through publications, and ongoing involvement in the Oral History Association (US), the International Oral History Association, and the International Federation for Public History. My early work was gathered in a 1990 essay collection, almost all reflections on actual practice – A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. This has somehow survived as a landmark in the field – or at least its title has: as a kind of meme, Shared Authority seems to have struck a chord and helped crystallize a useful discourse driving both thought and practice over time.
More...
Over the last several years, we have witnessed an increase in the popularity of oral history among community archives. Accounts are recorded not only by researchers and members of science institutions, as more and more grassroots initiatives (including community archives) start their activity by collecting oral history recordings. Oral history is also present in museums and cultural institutions (libraries, community centres); recordings are made for instance by the Białystok Cultural Centre/Ludwik Zamenhof Centre or Biblioteka Publiczna im. Marii Konopnickiej (the Maria Konopnicka Public Library) in Suwałki. This results from the general availability of recording equipment, but also of grants for documenting the history of a given community, location, profession or group. This trend inevitably invites the question of how these recordings are made, but also what happens to them next with respect to archiving, editing and publication. It should be mentioned here that thus far, in spite of discussions across various institutions (including the Polish Oral History Association), no unified set of rules has been established concerning the publication or editing of oral history recordings.
More...
Review of: Marcelina Jakimowicz, Świat, który już nie istnieje. Polskie i ukraińskie opowieści biograficzne (1918–1956) [A world that no longer exists. Polish and Ukrainian biographical stories (1918–1956)], ‘Remembrance and Future’ Centre, Wrocław 2022, pp. 368.
More...
In the text, the author provides an overview of the history of the Serbs in the Požega valley using archival material, literature and interviews with the remaining members of the Serbian national minority. The author first brings information about the circumstances of Serb immigration to the area of the Požega valley, and then deals with the customs and way of life of the Serbs. He devoted a special chapter to the Second World War. The socialist period was covered in the following chapter, which also covered the culture of remembrance of the Second World War and the neglect of religion. The last chapter deals with the Homeland War in the Požega valley and the suffering of Serbs in that area
More...
Review of: Amer Maslo (ur.), Hamdija Kreševljaković, "Nekrolozi" , O. Z. Rekultura/U. G. Videoarhiv, Sarajevo 2022, 275 str.
More...
The purpose of this work is to introduce to the reader the people whose lives have only been of marginal interest to modern historiographers. It portrays how the people living on the edge of society construct their personal stories. The narrators are people who were older than 18 years in 1989 and who personally experienced homelessness after the Velvet Revolution. Homelessness is explored as a public phenomenon appearing alongside the transformation of the Czech Republic. The research is based primarily on the oral history method with people who are currently homeless.
More...
The proposed contribution discusses memories of Romanian Second World War veterans recorded in the period 1995-2001 mainly during ethnological rural field researches. Such memories have been preserved in oral circulation in the repertoire of their owners for almost half a century and consequently, they are subjected to complex processing and mediation.Expressing a cultural language and expressed in the patterns of folk narratives, oral recollections represent valuable testimonies of the manner in which native (traditional) cultures of people mould perception and appropriation of a different and alienating culture such as war culture.Corroborating a brief review of the anthropological meaning of armed conflicts with three fragments selected out of the accounts recorded during the field research mentioned above, the study regards war as a liminal experience, that induces irreversible transformations to people and communities engaged in it.
More...