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The Early Modern Community of Memory in Wroclaw. The Memorative Function of the Protestant Funeral Sermons from Silesia The printed funeral sermons of the seventeenth-century were a medium which helped the urban elite of Wroclaw such as town councillors, merchants, scholars, clericals and craftsmen to enhance its prestige and emphasize its representation in the society. The nobility as well as the bourgeoisie was a part of a community of memory according to the Maurice Halbwach’s concept of collective memory. The article aims to show on (auto)biographic information given in selected Pro- testant funeral sermons, the network of mutual relationships in the society and the ways of shaping the memory.
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The article is devoted to the image of the Operation ‘Vistula’ that emerges from the narratives of members of the Lemko community of memory. The analysis is based on interviews that I have conducted as part of my longterm research conducted among representatives of the Lemko community. The collected stories are part of the ‘history of minorities’, or ‘subordinate history’, which in post-war Poland was subordinated to the official vision of the national past, doomed to marginalization and ‘forgetting’. The change was brought about by the year 1989, which started the period of democratization of memory and ‘reclaiming the past’ by marginalized minorities. The analysis of interviews allows indicating the main and recurring motives, but also the dynamics of changing the way of telling about this important event. What is characteristic of all collected narratives is the special importance of Operation ‘Vistula’, which appears in every story, often spontaneously and often performing different functions in these narratives. It is an event that structures the group’s history. It constitutes a distinct turning point, dividing the group’s history into the good ‘time before’ displacement and bad ‘time after’ displacement; it allows upholding relationships between the past, present and future.
Literatura Ludowa
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2023
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vol. 67
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issue 3-4
57-73
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The Vilamovians are an ethnic group living on the borderland of Silesia and Lesser Poland. They are descendants of settlers who came to this place in the 13th century, as evidenced by the continuously functioning Germanic language called Wymysorys. In 1941 they signed the Volksliste, which became one of the causes of their postwar persecutions. In memoir-based stories of the Vilamovians there are recurrent elements of narration – interpretive models, topoi and linguistic fossils – which are shared by all group members as a result of the process of fabulization and folklorization. I refer to this group as the “Vilamovian-centric community of memory”. One of the most important models occurring in the narration of this community is the interpretive model of “the belief in the functioning of the state”. Its main function is to justify the actions of the Vilamovians as a group to an outside listener who, according to the perceptions of community members, has a false image of what the Volksliste was.
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Wilamowianie to grupa etniczna mieszkająca na pograniczu Śląska i Małopolski. Są oni potomkami osadników przybyłych z zachodniej Europy, o czym świadczy zachowany do dziś germański język wilamowski (Wymysiöeryś). W 1941 r. Wilamowianie podpisali Volkslistę, co było jednym z powodów ich powojennych prześladowań. W opowieściach wspomnieniowych wielu Wilamowian na ten temat pojawiają się powtarzające się elementy narracji – wzorce interpretacyjne, toposy i skamieliny językowe, które w wyniku procesu fabularyzacji i folkloryzacji są dzielone przez wszystkich członków grupy. Tę grupę nazwałem wilamowskocentryczną wspólnotą pamięci. Jednym z najważniejszych wzorców interpretacyjnych występujących w narracji tej grupy jest wzorzec „wiary w funkcjonowanie państwa”. Jego głównym zadaniem jest usprawiedliwienie Wilamowian jako grupy przed odbiorcą z zewnątrz, który – według wyobrażeń członków wspólnoty – ma fałszywy obraz tego, czym była Volkslista.
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