Object's details: Three Lives of a Cemetery: the History of a Military Cemetery in the Village of Marcinowa Wola in Masuria

Provider:Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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Title:
Three Lives of a Cemetery: the History of a Military Cemetery in the Village of Marcinowa Wola in Masuria
Creator:
Bernat, Magdalena
Contributor:
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of History Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology;
magdalena.bernat@phdstud.ug.edu.pl
Description:
Marcinowa Wola is a typical locality in Masuria (northern Poland), where a nearly total exchange of citizens took place after WW2. Polish and Ukrainian people coming here after the war had to deal with the sense of strangeness connected with the German presence in the near past. One of the ways of overcoming that impression was appropriation of their surroundings – an act of adapting the cultural landscape to their needs. A very vivid example of this process is the cemetery from the Great War located in Marcinowa Wola. The perception of this place among the local inhabitants changed dramatically over the years. Although it is located in the centre of the village, the cemetery was out of the social life during the first years after the war. As it was not treated as a sacred place any more, it was eroding and overgrowing for years. Everything changed in the 1970s, when the next generation became adolescent. Young people started to use the cemetery as their meeting place and in this way they adapted it to a new, completely different role. However, when the youth grew up, the place was once again forgotten for some time, and only recently did the inhabitants see its value as a cemetery, however, not in sacred but historical terms. It can be assumed that it was assimilated as an element of their own heritage, which means that the process of appropriation has been completed.
Object availability:
free access
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Date:
2021.03.26;
2019.12.30
Type:
Article
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica;34
Subject:
cemetery;
cultural landscape;
appropriation of landscape;
Masuria;
cmentarz;
krajobraz kulturowy;
zawłaszczanie krajobrazu;
Mazury
Identifier:
0208-6034;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/34794 ;
2449-8300;
10.18778/0208-6034.34.06
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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