Open AccessWysiedlenie widziane oczami dziecka z Zamojszczyzny
Author(s) -
Barbara Stelingowska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
narracje o zagładzie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-2133
pISSN - 2450-4424
DOI - 10.31261/noz.2020.06.24
Subject(s) - forced migration , nazi concentration camps , prisoners of war , history , world war ii , population , refugee , criminology , displaced person , genealogy , ancient history , demography , sociology , law , political science , archaeology , nazism , german
The article undertakes the topic of forced population displacement seen through the eyes of a child from Zamojszczyzna along with war-time fates of Polish families deported duringthe Second World War. The history of Zamojszczyzna lands is composed of tragic experiences of people forced out of their family households, imprisoned in the transit camps, deported to be involuntary labourers in the Third Reich, or murdered in concentration camps KL Auschwitz and KL Lublin (Majdanek). The survivors had to carry on throughout their lives with an indelible mark left by war-time childhood reflected by the name “a Child of Zamojszczyna” (the said status was granted to persons who were prisoners of the transit camps in Zamość and Zwierzyniec [solely children until the age of fourteen] and those imprisoned in concentration camps [for at least one day]).