Title The toolkit of oral history in the context of the formation of a mass of oral history sources for the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932–1933 /
Authors Boriak, Tetiana
DOI 10.23856/5204
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Is Part of Scientific journal of Polonia University.. Czestochowa : Publishing House of Polonia University „Educator”. 2022, vol. 52, iss. 3, p. 27-40.. ISSN 1895-9911. eISSN 2543-8204
Keywords [eng] Holodomor ; oral history ; oral history sources ; trauma ; memory studies ; historical memory ; interview
Abstract [eng] The aim of the paper is to apply theoretical framework elaborated in oral history for the research of the Holodomor. The first aspect is relation of the collective and the individual. Regarding the Holodomor, one can find absence of pressure of official historical memory over the individual; massive of Holodomor oral history is huge (thousands of units of narrative) that allows to solve the problem of verification and to generalize the experience of the respondents in many parameters. The author also shows how problems of the degree of censoring, reference points and regarding the harmonization of the public and the private can be solves with the oral history of the Holodomor. Specificity of gender’s recalling of the past is also proposed. The second component of analyzed framework is correlation between memory and time. The author illustrates that there are no obstacles to non-trusting of the narrative of the Holodomor survivors. Third component of the framework is trauma. Using oral history, the author illustrates how witnesses to the famine express signals of the traumatic event. The article also points at such important aspect of dealing with investigating the trauma, as absence of words to express surviving through the famine. The historical method, analysis and synthesis, and also the comparative-historical method were used.
Published Czestochowa : Publishing House of Polonia University „Educator”
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2022
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