Authors: Artymyshyn Y.

Summary: Collective image of deportations from the Ukrainian-Polish borderland of 1944—1951 as well as of traumatic events, that preceded this process in the views of displaced persons, and their descendants and the inclusion of their experience in the historical memory of Ukraine are recreated. The process of forming a person’s territorial belonging, interrelations between the different levels of identity. The mass media images of deportations in 1944-1951 are considered, the basis and principles of their coverage in the Polish and Ukrainian press in 1990-2018 are compared, and everyday perceptions of the reasons and tasks of deportation actions are investigated. The image of «Zakerzonnia» (territory of Zakerzon/Trans-Curzonia) and deported Ukrainians in Ukrainian film documentaries is analyzed, the formation of the image of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland of the 20 th century in contemporary Ukrainian and Polish literature is examined. The study of the historical memory of the deportees is carried out through the prism of ego- documents, resettlement publications, oral history materials. The influence of the destructive (traumatic) experience on the construction of the image of the «small homeland» of the deportees is analyzed. The place of this image in the hierarchy of values of deportees and the influence of the origin of the displaced persons on the formation of the historical memory of descendants has been clarified.

Reading audience: For scientists, all who interested history of Polish-Ukrainian borderland, deportations of the Ukrainians from the Poland 1944—1951.

ISBN 978-966-02-9680-0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33402/deport.2023

Responsible institutions: Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of NAS of Ukraine

Published: Lviv

Size in pages: 276

Print run: 300