Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town (War and Genocide, 30)

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed __Anatomy of a Genocide__, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction. "Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction"-- Provided by publisher Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz, These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish veteran of World War I, a Ukrainian witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us to understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Language, Place, and Personal Names Introduction The Accounts Antoni Siewiński Memories of Buczacz and Jazłowiec during the Great War, 1914–20 Viktor Petrykevych Written in Stanyslaviv and Buchach, 1941–44 With additional notes from Stryi, Drohobych, and Kolomyya, 1944–56 Moshe Wizinger Written in Cyprus, 1947 Bibliography Index Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.