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The Life and Death of Western Volhynian Jewry, 1921–1945 This article presents the characteristics of the Jewish population living in Western Volhynia in the times of the Second Republic of Poland and during the Second World War. Polish interwar authorities enabled the Jewish communities to follow their traditional pattern of life. With time, however, Zionism and especially communism were becoming increasingly popular among the Volhynian Jews. In 1937, the Jewish community accounted for about 10 percent of the region’ s inhabitants and was outnumbered by the Ukrainian minority. Jews dominated in trade and skilled crafts and constituted half of the urban population. After 17 September 1939, Volhynia found itself under Soviet occupation. Initially, the Red Army was welcome, as the Soviet terror was mostly directed against the Polish population. Due to aggressive sovietisation, however, the Jews of Volhynia lost any illusions as to the possibility of achieving autonomy, realizing that they had simply become citizens of a totalitarian state. Their situation deteriorated dramatically in June 1941 following the German invasion of Russia. In accordance with Nazi ideology, the local Jews were to be exterminated in the Holocaust. In June and July 1941 alone, approximately 12 000 Jews were murdered by the Germans on the front lines of the war, in the autumn – 20 000 more. The collaborating Ukrainian police forces helped the German occupiers in inflicting terror. The Germans began to set up ghettos at the end of 1941, only to start their liquidation several months later. Jews were murdered on a massive scale in the so-called death pits near their homes. Most of the Volhynian Jews lost their lives during the war. Only a few managed to escape or found shelter among Poles or Ukrainians. Some decided to join partisan groups (mostly communist), who conducted their operations in the extremely difficult conditions of German occupation, Soviet counter-offensive and ethnic civil war in Volhynia.
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Den Untersuchungsgegenstand bildet das Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs in "Abschied von Jerusalem" von Anna Mitgutsch, einer spannenden Geschichte über Leidenschaft, Vertrauen und Verrat, einem sehr aktuellen Roman sowohl über das faszinierende und multikulturelle Jerusalem als auch über private und politische Beziehungen zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern. Im Zentrum der Erzählung steht die Figur einer jungen Österreicherin, die auf der Suche nach einer verlorenen Verwandten und ihren eigenen jüdischen Wurzeln nach Israel auswandert. Der Artikel analysiert die allgemeine Einstellung zur jüdischen Herkunft sowie das Problem der Erinnerung an vergangene Ereignisse, insbesondere an das Drama des Zweiten Weltkriegs. In ihrem Roman verknüpft die Autorin die Familiengeschichte mit der Geschichte des ganzen Landes, sie verweist auf die Frage des kulturellen und kollektiven Gedächtnisses und insbesondere auf die spezifisch österreichische Erinnerung an die Ereignisse des Holocaust sowie die langjährige Tendenz, die Beteiligung der Österreicher an diesem Kriegsverbrechen zu negieren bzw. ihre Schuld zu vermindern.
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The article is devoted to the image of the Second World War in "Lover, Traitor: A Jerusalem Story" ("Abschied von Jerusalem") by Anna Mitgutsch, a suspenseful story of passion, trust and betrayal, a timely novel about Jerusalem, a fascinating multicultural city, but also about intimate and political relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Mitgutsch’s story centers around a young Austrian woman who goes to Israel to find a lost relative and her own Jewish identity. The article discusses the attitude to Jewish roots and the problem of remembering of past events, especially memories of The Second World War. In her novel the author combines family history with the history of the country, refers to the issue of cultural and collective memory, and especially to the specific Austrian memory of the events of the Holocaust and the long-standing tendency to diminish the guilt and to negate the participation of Austrians in war crime.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest obrazowi drugiej wojny światowej w "Abschied von Jerusalem" Anny Mitgutsch, trzymającej w napięciu opowieści o namiętności, zaufaniu i zdradzie, wciąż aktualnej powieści o fascynującej i multikulturowej Jerozolimie, ale także o prywatnych i politycznych relacjach między Izraelczykami i Palestyńczykami. W centrum utworu znajduje się postać młodej Austriaczki, która podąża do Izraela w poszukiwaniu zaginionej krewnej i własnych żydowskich korzeni. Artykuł analizuje powszechny stosunek do żydowskiego pochodzenia, jak również problem pamięci o przeszłych wydarzeniach, zwłaszcza o dramacie drugiej wojny światowej. W swej powieści autorka łączy bowiem historię rodzinną z historią kraju, nawiązuje do zagadnienia pamięci kulturowej i zbiorowej, a zwłaszcza do specyficznej austriackiej pamięci o wydarzeniach Holocaustu i wieloletniej tendencji do umniejszania winy oraz negowania udziału Austriaków w zbrodniach wojennych.
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