On a Melting Ice Floe – Polish Jewish Wartime Refugees in Central Asia

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2023.2221552" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2023.2221552</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2023.2221552" target="_blank" >10.1080/14623528.2023.2221552</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On a Melting Ice Floe – Polish Jewish Wartime Refugees in Central Asia

Original language description

During World War II, tens of thousands of Polish Jewish refugees spent several years in Soviet Central Asia. Yet, little of the intriguing character of the Silk Road remains in their memories. Rather, these convey the years of exile as a desperate attempt to survive in conditions where refugees’ lives depended on the confusingly numerous and varied power actors in the region. Drawing on first-person narratives, the article describes how navigating between these actors affected the postwar identities of Polish Jews. Their refugee history ran the gamut from criminalization (by the Germans and Soviets) to discrimination (by the Polish state in exile). It turns out that the experience of Polish antisemitism and civic exclusion that caught up with them in this remote region was one of the strongest affects in their memory. By analyzing eastern destinations (Central Asia) as a space of refugee accommodation, we can appreciate the significance of this geography for the postwar disidentification of Jewish survivors with Poland. It was not only the attitude of fellow Poles in the German-occupied country during the war, but also their treatment of the citizenship of Polish Jewish refugees in Central Asia as significantly inferior that cast a lasting shadow over the emotions of surviving Jews toward their country of origin.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Genocide Research

ISSN

1462-3528

e-ISSN

1469-9494

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

286-306

UT code for WoS article

001011199200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85161885048