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Akcja Wisล‚a and the Emptying of Lemkivshchyna

Historical period

Between 1944 and 1946 many Lemkos were transferred to the Soviet Union; in 1947 Operation Vistula deported the remainder to the former German territories in northern and western Poland, dispersing them deliberately so that communities could not reform. โš  CHRONOS DISTINCTION: the deportation is a documented event with dates and orders; what a family now remembers of it, and what the food is now taken to mean, is community memory โ€” related, and not the same kind of statement.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Communities and languages

  • Lemkos community documented

What is recorded

  • Operation Vistula in 1947 is a documented administrative action with dates, orders and figures. What the dispersal is now taken to mean, and the food memory attached to it, is community interpretation. The two are recorded separately. documented
  • Operation Vistula deports the remaining Lemko population from the Beskids to the former German territories of northern and western Poland. documented

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