Przesiedleńcy w Wielkopolsce. Stosunek ludności miejscowej do osadników z Kresów Wschodnich

• Authors: Garbatowska Adriana

Title variants

EN

Displaced Persons in Greater Poland. Attitude of Local People towards the Settlers from the Eastern Borderlands

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The thread brought up in this article concerns the way how the local people see the displacements and the displaced settlers. It is an aspect of the research theme “The Memory of Displacements after World War II in the Settlers’ Families in the Area of Greater Poland”. The research is aimed at recording the present-day perception of displacements from the Eastern Borderland to Greater Poland that took place after World War II. Two groups of inhabitants are examined—displaced persons and local people—in a few selected Greater Polish villages (Broniszewice, Józefów, Nowa Kaźmierka, Walkowice, Biała, Radolin, Drachowo, Potrzymowo). Greater Poland as the settlement goal for the displaced persons from the Eastern Borderland is nothing of an obvious area. Customarily, historically, geographically, and socially the displacements are associated with territories west- and northwards of the historical Greater Poland area (a small area on the right bank of the Noteć River is an exception here). These were called the Recovered Territories or Western and Northern Territories, meaning lands which till 1939 had been a part of Germany. The move of the borders of Poland westwards in 1945 resulted in two phenomena: Poles, from the territories lost in the East, were directed to the regained lands in the West and North. According to the then authorities’ intentions, the settlement of Polish people was to justify Poland’s right to possess these areas. The analysis of the community from a given village is aimed at depicting the way these communities see one another. e in3uence on the following coexistence and changes has been taken into consideration as well. Has this neighbourhood of more than half a century evened out, if ever, perceiving the origins of the interviewed people and others? As regards the displacements, the focus of the authoress is on the process of adaptation to a new social, cultural, and economic environment, through which the local people saw new settlers. e considerations are based on the 4eld research conducted in the aforementioned villages between 2009–2012. e research group of locals numbered 51 persons. The oldest informer was born in 1919, whilst the youngest one in 1976. In the group of people born between 1919 and 1944, thirty interviews were carried out. Eighteen interviews occurred in the group of people between 1945 and 1969 and there were three talks with persons born after 1970. The term “locals” is treated narrowly in this case. It denotes people whose origin is of no doubt: they were born in the examined village or in the nearest vicinities.

Keywords

PL

przesiedlenia; Wielkopolska; wieś; narracja

EN

displacements; Greater Poland; village; narrative

• Publisher: Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy
• Journal: Studia Lednickie
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 177-187

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Garbatowska Adriana

• Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy

Identifiers

ISSN

0860-7893